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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Hissy Fit and the Culture of Violence: an Interview with Christian Guerematchi
Christian Guerematchi makes choreographic work around the Black identity. In his work Hissy Fit, he shares the Afropessimistic philosophy in a physical combination of drill rap, breaking, krump and live video art.
SMRK, the Lament and its Distortion: an Interview with Mina Tomic
Mina Tomic is the artist involved in the Moving Forward Trajectory at ICK in 2022. In this interview, you read about her background, inspirations, and fascinating perspectives that culminate into her work SMRK.
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...
From Italy to ICK-Fest: An interview with Nicola Galli
How to create a unique dance performance? Italian dancer and choreographer Nicola Galli is passionate about arts and science. His newest piece is based on genome research and invites the audience to...
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...
MOVING FUTURES: A TRAVELING FESTIVAL FROM HOME
The dance festival Moving Futures, an initiative of ICK Artist Space, Dansateliers, DansBrabant, Random Collision and De Nieuwe Oost, which normally travels through various cities in the...
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...
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...
In isolation – internal infinities // Synthetic Disjunctions
When the virus forced The Netherlands to hold its breath, choreographer Elisa Zuppini had just started her residency at Dansmakers Amsterdam and ICK in the frame of the New Adventures program. In...
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.
Of Fractures and Joints
Annet Huizing, the coordinator of ICK’s artistic archive, reflects on two aspects underlying CHOREOPOP, a performance by Jésus de Vega & Chai Blaq: things broken and things Japanese.
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.