Raimound Hoghe cares deeply about history—the history of divas, the history of dance, the history of pop culture, and the history of politics. His works investigate the poetics of memory: how we remember, how easily we forget, how often
Hoghe’s own history as an artist is remarkable. He worked throughout the 1980s as a critic and dramaturge with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, a position that presumably required him to provide a literary context for the world-renown choreographer’s often baffling dance-theater images. Though the intricacies of any collaboration are left outside of history, a dramaturge typically collaborates with a choreographer by asking her questions aimed at unveiling the driving forces behind a work. (Collections of Hoghe’s writings as a dramaturge with Bausch have been published in several languages though not yet in English).
