Raimund Hoghe's Sans-titre at DTW
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/performance/sans-titre-at-dtw/873/
Raimund Hoghe’s Sans-titre, a collaboration with Faustin Linyekula at DTW through Sep 18, is contemplative, clinical, sentimental, absorbing. Its long passages of taskmaking challenge one’s patience. Yet they also add to the formal, rarefied atmosphere of the spartan, black-draped theater, punctuated by a lone candle flame upstage. Everything is slowed down and reduced to its essence, which politely requests that we do so as well.
The work is part of FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival. Hoghe, from Wuppertal, was a writer and Pina Bausch’s dramaturge before he began making work. Linyekula, a generation younger, is from the Congo. Although both are relatively short in stature, they are very different. Hoghe was born with a spinal deformity that he accomodates in his performances. Linyekula is wiry and athletic, and shirtless, his muscular back seems to be absently mocking this difference.
