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Podcast The Body in Revolt: The Joker & The Intuitive Body

Podcast The Body in Revolt: The Joker & The Intuitive Body

This month on The Body in Revolt: a conversation with dance students Gracie Moore and Toni Brown, and Marsha Barsky, chair of the dance department of Kennesaw State University. A conversation about their experiences joining the programme at ICK Dans Amsterdam for one week, thoughts on the future of dance, and differences in dance between the Netherlands and the United States of America.

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World in Revolt 2020

World in Revolt 2020

2020… a year that will go down in history as the year of the corona crisis. The pandemic dominated the world news and seemed to push other important topics, such as climate change or civil wars,...

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The New Measurement #4

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. ...

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The New Measurement #3

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...

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The New Measurement #2

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...

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The New Measurment #1

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...

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World in Revolt 2019

World in Revolt 2019

From The Hague to Hong Kong and from Chile to Indonesia, a lot of bodies came out on the street to reclaim their ownership and right to express themselves in any self-chosen way.

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Embodied ways of writing

Embodied ways of writing

Edward Lloyd’s assignments which explore the use of language as a mode of choreography; and a search for embodied ways of writing. Work Travail Arbeid is written as a response to the piece by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker| Rosas, and the other is a reflection from an evening at a jazz bar.

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21 years of TWO

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.

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Performing Nothing

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.

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The Memory Of the Dance

The Memory Of the Dance

How beautiful it would be if choreographies could be danced again even after a hundred years. ICK is, therefore, working on a way to ‘archive’ contemporary dance. Not just in order to pass it on to future generations, but also to build bridges with the world outside dance.

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Museum of Humanity

Museum of Humanity

Since 17 years, photographer Ruben Timman portrays people from all around the world to capture the beauty of Humanity. He and his camera made a stop in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, the homebase of ICK. While he made the portraits, we asked the Nieuw – West citizens what ‘The body in Revolt’ means for them.

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