Dance Critic Michael Seaver has chosen Raimund Hoghe’s forthcoming performance at DDF 2010 as a Dance highlight of the year ahead in The Irish Times’ Critics’ Choice of cultural events in 2010.

Seaver notes: “The remarkable Raimund Hoghe will return to the Dublin Dance Festival, two years after his Swan Lake, 4 Acts became a word-of-mouth must-see for festival audiences. Young People, Old Voices dates from 2002 and contrasts Hoghe’s age and particularly physicality – he has a spinal condition – with four young Dublin performers, chosen by audition. Ballet-tanz magazine’s Dancer of the Year in 2008, Hoghe was a dramaturg for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal for 10 years, before choreographing solos and group works that have won a string of awards. Young People, Old Voices won’t just be an audience hit, it is also a thematic centrepiece to this year’s festival, which will embrace themes around different body types and attitudes to youth and age.”

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