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Fra Cervello e Movimento - Extra Dry

In the energetic dance performance Extra Dry a dancer is joined by his double. His universe isinvaded; the two bodies cross invisible boundaries, moving from the explosive to the exploratory in thesearch for oneness. The perfectly controlling mind, subjecting the body to the will of the dancer isconfronted by the body's resistance to obey.

Extra Dry is the third of a series called Fra Cervello e Movimento. Fra Cervello e Movimento is a set ofthree performances - Bianco, Rosso, Extra Dry that investigate the dyad brain (cervello) andmovement (movimento); a mind that wishes to control and a body that is curious for new sensations.

The motive is the interest towards the reactions that inner impulses impose on the body. How can thebody surpass its limitations? How open can it be in its responses and what kind of transformations canit take on?

CreditsChoreography, direction: Emio Greco | Pieter C. ScholtenLighting, set and sound concept: Emio Greco | Pieter C. ScholtenDance: 2 dancersLighting design: Henk DannerCostume design: Clifford PortierRealization of sound collage: Wim SellesProduction: Emio Greco | PCCoproduction: Kaaitheater, Brussel (BE), Tanzwerkstatt, Berlijn (DE), Klapstuk Festival, Leuven (BE),

Springdance, Utrecht (NL)Premiere: 31-03-1999 Kaaitheater, Brussel (BE)

ICKamsterdam is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL and the municipality of Amsterdam

© Erik Lint – Anna van Kooij



Press quotes

‘Every detail is a golden grain in the whole. And the most beautiful thing is that Greco himself seems to

be eternally astonished by that.’

Sally Kunst - De Morgen, Belgium 1999.

‘His movement, first and foremost, should be looked upon as an archi tectural design, a sculpture made

of a living texture, that of muscles. His clear, open presence has a disarming effect, his curiosity to find

out about the necessity to dance is catching. The spectator that’s ready for it, without delay, will be

carried a way into a state of intense perceptions.’

Paul Derksen – Notes, The Netherlands 1996

‘ Their bodies start to steam from the torrents of accelerating movement until the fabric resembles

spider webs dinging with a clammy b eauty to the dancers’ skin.’

Scotsman 28/08/00

‘Two dancers are a pair, then seem as one, grasping and reaching in unison. Unison, but not

precision. Slight discrepancies in facings and phrasings make it real and living as opposed to a

choreographed drill. (…)’ Jenai Cutcher, Columbus Alive, 29 March 2001

© Laurent Ziegler - Erik Lint

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Tourlist Extra Dry 1999 - 2010

date year presenter/festival theatre city country

30-3 1999 Kaaitheater Brussels Belgium



8-4 1999 De Vooruit Gent Belgium

14-4 1999 Springdance Utrecht Netherlands

15-4 1999 Springdance Utrecht Netherlands

1-5 1999 Bellevue Amsterdam Netherlands

2-5 1999 Bellevue Amsterdam Netherlands

6-5 1999 Lantaren/Venster Rotterdam Netherlands



11-5 1999 De Brandweerkazerne Leuven Belgium

12-5 1999 De Brandweerkazerne Leuven Belgium

6-6 1999 16th Dance Week festival Zagreb Croatia

13-8 1999 ImPulzTanz Vienna Austria

15-8 1999 ImPulzTanz Vienna Austria

19-8 1999 Tanz im August Theater am Hallische Ufer Berlin Germany



12-9 1999 Batie Festival Geneve Switzerland

16-9 1999 Keuze van de schouwburg Rotterdam Netherlands

23-9 1999 Korzo Den Haag Netherlands

24-9 1999 Korzo Den Haag Netherlands

18-10 1999 First Europ. Fest. Of Cont. Dance Moscow Russia

29-10 1999 Moving Mime festival Tilburg Netherlands

11-11 1999 Monty Antwerpen Belgium

12-11 1999 Monty Antwerpen Belgium

15-12 1999 Sadsschouwburg Brugge Brugge Belgium

19-8 1999 Internationales Tanzfest Berlin Theater am Halleschen Ufer Berlin Germany



6-1 2000 Cultureel Centrum Beveren Belgium

13-1 2000 Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen Belgium

17-1 2000 Theatre de la Bastille Paris France

18-1 2000 Theatre de la Bastille Paris Greece


21-1 2000 Theatre de la Bastille Paris France22-1 2000 Theatre de la Bastille Paris France


28-1 2000 Cultureel Centrum Lommel Belgium

1-2 2000 Theatre National Rennes France




8-2 2000 La Garonne Toulouse France

9-2 2000 La Garonne Toulouse France

3-3 2000 Teatro Central Sevilla Spain

4-3 2000 Teatro Central Sevilla Spain25-5 2000 Dans in Kortrijk Kortrijk Belgium

27-5 2000 L' Opéra Leonardo de Vinci Rouen France

3-6 2000 Madrid en Danza Madrid Spain



7-7 2000 Internationale Tanzwochen Münster Munster Germany

8-7 2000 Internationale Tanzwochen Münster Munster Germany

25-8 2000 Edinburgh International Festival EdinburghGreatBritain

15-3 2001 Universiteitstheater Amsterdam Netherlands

23-3 2001 MCA Chicago USA

24-3 2001 MCA Chicago USA

29-3 2001 Wexner Center Columbus USA




5-4 2001 Southern Theater Minneapolis USA



20-7 2001 ImPulzTanz Akademietheater Vienna Austria

25-9 2001 Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina



25-11 2003 Teatro Comunale Ferrara Italy26-11 2003 Teatro Comunale Ferrara Italy

29-11 2003 Festival d'Autunno Teatro Ariosto Reggio Emilia Italy

2-12 2003 Teatro Novelli Rimini Italy

4-12 2003 Teatro Comunale Modena Italy

7-12 2003 Teatro Comunale Casalmaggiore Italy

4-10 2004 Brakke Grond Amsterdam Netherlands

5-10 2004 Brakke Grond Amsterdam Netherlands

2-11 2004 Romaeuropa Festival Teatro Valle Rome Italy

3-11 2004 Romaeuropa Festival Teatro Valle Rome Italy

26-11 2004 Trafo House of Con. Art Budapest Hungary

27-11 2004 Trafo House of Con. Art Budapest Hungary28-11 2004 Trafo House of Con. Art Budapest Hungary

4-2 2006 CC de Spil CC De Spil Roeselaere Belgium

7-2 2006 De Veste De Veste Delft Netherlands

8-2 2006 Schouwburg de Meerse Schouwburg de Meerse Hoofddorp Netherlands

9-2 2006 Schouwburg Schouwburg Tilburg Tilburg Netherlands

10-2 2006 Theater a/h Vrijthof Theater a/h Vrijthof Maastricht Netherlands

14-2 2006 Stadsschouwburg Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands

15-2 2006 Stadsschouwburg Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands

17-2 2006 De Vest De Vest Alkmaar Netherlands

18-2 2006 Tanzhaus NRW Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf Germany

21-2 2006 Sradssschouwburg Stadsschouwburg Groningen Groningen Netherlands

22-2 2006 De Harmoniie De Harmonie Leeuwarden Netherlands

25-2 2006 Schouwburg Kunstmin Schouwburg Kunstmin Dordrecht Netherlands

2-8 2007 ImPulsTanz Volkstheater Vienna Austria

4-8 2007 ImPulsTanz Volkstheater Vienna Austria

8-8 2007 Operaestate Festival Veneto Teatro Astra Bassano Italy


25-9 2007 Maison de la Culture Amiens France

17-4 2008 Springdance Huis a/d Werf Utrecht Netherlands

18-4 2008 Springdance Huis a/d Werf Utrecht Netherlands

12-11 2008 Automne en Normandie Théâtre du Grand Forum Louviers France

22-1 2009 Theater Frascati Frascati 1 Amsterdam Netherlands



29-5 2009 Contemporanea Colline festival Teatro Metastasio Prato Italy



20-11 2009 Odeon de Spiegel Zwolle Netherlands

21-11 2009 Korzo5hoog Den Haag Netherlands

24-11 2009 Deventer Schouwburg Deventer Netherlands

25-11 2009 Podium Twente Enschede Netherlands

3-12 2009 Torino Danza Teatro Astra Turin Italy

4-12 2009 Torino Danza Teatro Astra Turin Italy

20-10 2010 Teatr Studio Warsawa Poland



ICKamsterdam

The International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICKamsterdam), which opened in 2009, is an

initiative by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. In addition to making dance productions,

ICKamsterdam wants to contribute to the development and vitality of dance by stimulating dance research,

by offering a space for research performances, by entering into dialogues with other artists, by providing

workshops, lectures and educational programmes, by keeping current repertoire up to date and by issuing

publications. ICKamsterdam is meant to be a space for dialogue between residents and passers-by from

different art disciplines.

Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten and dance company Emio Greco | PCEmio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten have worked together since 1995 in their joint search for new dance

forms. Out of curiosity for the body and its inner motives they created their first work: the solo Bianco , which

became the first part of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento (between brain and movement). They also

wrote a manifesto setting out 7 basic principles of dance and their impact on the body and the spectator.

After the internationally successful dance productions created between 1995 and 2001, from 2002, Greco

and Scholten shifted the perspective of their company Emio Greco | PC to opera, music and film. At the

request of the Edinburgh International Festival they directed and choreographed two operas, which included

Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Their collaboration with Swiss composer Hanspeter Kyburz in the on-going project

Double Points:+ followed shortly after. Together with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Greco and Scholten made

Teorema , based on a film and a novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini. In 2006, these interdisciplinary excursionsgave rise to the highly acclaimed dance production HELL, the first part of a trilogy inspired by Dante. The

second part, [purgatorio] premièred in 2008 during the Holland Festival and included compositions by

contemporary composer Michael Gordon and classical composer Franck Krawczyk. In 2009, a special

collaboration took place between EG | PC, star violinist Janine Jansen and clarinettist Martin Fröst, Double

Points: Janine | Martin . The third and final part of the Dante trilogy, you PARA | DISO will see its world

première in Monaco on 3 July 2010.

EG | PC has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, boasts widespread international

recognition and has toured extensively abroad. The work is regularly co-produced by major festivals and

theatres.

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