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Christian Guerematchi (Slovenia/Central Africa) is a bi-cultural choreographer and performer with a background in ballet and contemporary dance. After dancing for a long time for various dancers and...
Mina Tomic (Serbia, 1990) was born in the former Yugoslavia. She first studied architecture at Lund University in Sweden and completed her Fine Arts degree at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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.
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 -.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An article about the work of American photographer Mary Ellen Mark whose work we stumbled upon while searching inspiration for the creation of Appearance.