An impression of the ICK-Company’s tour in Italy with WE, the ANGEL and WE, the EYES.
From Ravenna to Rome: The ICK Company on tour in Italy
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Podcast The Body in Revolt: THE JOKER & EROS
In this episode of The Body in Revolt, Daniel Bolba and Augustinho Sequiera share their inspirations and experiences as percussionists for ICK Company’s upcoming performance WE, the EYES.
Dancer Denis Bruno wins Danza e Danza Award
ICK Company dancer Denis Bruno, who is originally from Turin, Italy, has been with ICK for three years and has performed in numerous ICK- productions, like Blasphemy Rhapsody and We Want It All. For...
Disappearance: To appear or disappear?
After Disappearance premiered in Luxembourg in 2019, the Coronavirus put a stop to performances in the Netherlands. Now, two years later, the show will finally be performed in Dutch theaters. We...
We Want it All: A series of endings marking a new beginning
To mark 25 years of collaboration, Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten will debut a work commemorating the “endings” of their oeuvre: WE WANT IT ALL. Ellen McGrath, dramaturgy...
THE WAY WE MOVE #2 – MEET EDWARD LLOYD
Edward Lloyd is our second dancer to meet with. Calm and lively, he opens this one on one talk with a tea in our studio. Edward shares his lifestyle, philosophy, career path and inspirations. What...
The way we move #1 – Meet dancer Victor Callens
Victor Callens is a real icon at ICK since he has been part of the ensemble for nearly 15 years! In this one on one talk, Victor reveals more about himself and shares his philosophy, career path and...
Damien Blottière: Choreographing by layering images
This season, ICK wanted to mark the 25-year collaboration between Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten by addressing the theme of One Body (a term used in the choreographic work of Greco and Scholten...
Pizzica and ritualistic dance today
Pizzica is a traditional Southern Italian dance, mainly performed in pairs within a circle of spectators. Tambourines, violins, and other regional instruments accompany the dance with high tempo...
The New Measurement #4
One word: Horses. Hold ‘em. As the ICK dancers were slowly returning home to the studio's, this is their closing part of a video series moving to the new measurement. ...
The New Measurement #3
Around the world, around the world, we're going around the world. Our bodies are just like atomic particles, how they move through space. Floating and weightless, light and...
Blasphemy Rhapsody: certainties can dance
When everything was still one big question mark, how we live together, what we consider normal, Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten started creating Blasphemy Rhapsody. With Blasphemy, the...
The New Measurement #2
Part two is just a feeling we've got, like something's about to happen, but we don't know what. Our bodies are just like atomic particles, how they move through space. Floating...
The New Measurment #1
Our bodies are just like atomic particles, how they move through space. Floating and weightless, light and heavy, ascending and falling. With the series The new measurement, ICK dans Amsterdam...
Curious about the body: Amos Ben-Tal about 60
Like ICK, Amos Ben-Tal is always curious about what the body does and knows. Although he makes precise choreographies, he lets his dancers fill them out; after all, everyone has his own past, fantasies and instincts which make every person’s body move differently.
Performance on the edge of existence: Kris Verdonck’s SOMETHING (out of nothing)
Recently, the British newspaper The Guardian changed its language policy with regard to the changing climate. Climate change became ‘climate emergency’ and instead of global warming, it now says: global heating. The newspaper does this in order to make the urgency clear and to break familiarization – people get used to a catastrophe -.
Sweet like a chocolate: talk with Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten
This Christmas holiday, for the first time in 30 years of history, there will be a dance performance at the Bellevue Lunchtheater. We invited the prestigious dance company ICK Amsterdam that is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. We spoke to the artistic director: Pieter C. Scholten and Emio Greco about their performance Sweet like a chocolate.
21 years of TWO
Four dancers of different generations share their experiences with dancing TWO: Barbara Meneses who performed it with Emio Greco in the early 2000s, Suzan Tunca and Vincent Colomes who danced it together in the decade after that, and Edward Lloyd – dancer of the present generation working at ICK. Did their experiences change over time.
Performing Nothing
ICK dancers Edward Lloyd and Sophia Dinkel started rehearsing with Kris Verdonck for SOMETHING (out of nothing). Edward shares his experiences after a workshop to prepare them for this process.
Rehearsal Notes: in the studio with Nacera Belaza
Jesse Vanhoeck’s notes that she made during rehearsals with Nacera Belaza. A choreographer, who tries to deconstruct all physical knowledge and habits trained dancers have about themselves.
Lost innocence. The work of Mary Ellen Mark as an inspiration source for APPEARANCE
An article about the work of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark whose work we stumbled upon while searching inspiration for the creation of Appearance.