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The International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK) is a platform for contemporary dance founded in 2009 by Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten. This City Company of Dance in Amsterdam is built on three pillars: ICK-Company (producing international dance performances), ICK-Artist Space (supporting new creators) and ICK-Academy (stimulating education and research projects). Since the 2019/2020 season, the company has been supplemented with a junior company: ICK Next. From 2021, the ICK Artist Space will be expanded to become Amsterdam's production house for contemporary dance. This versatility makes ICK Dans Amsterdam for everyone: from art lover and professional to the open-minded viewer and participant.

Directors

Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten are the directors of ICK and make their own work for the dance ensemble on a regular basis. They have been working together for over 25 years in their search for a new dance language and a new approach to the body, in which both the rebellious body and the triad; spectacle, body and miracle are the guiding principles. In a continuous pursuit of innovation, they regularly break open the existing frameworks within dance, and within the arts in a broader sense, in their own unique way.

In 2021, Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten received the Golden Swan, presented by Minister van Engelshoven, in recognition of their great contribution to Dutch dance.

Body in revolt

For ICK, the body is curious and groundbreaking, and above all a social body that is sensitive to social changes such as globalisation, digitisation and fragmentation. ICK takes the constant changes as its starting point and uses the body as a window on the world. Through the theme of the Body in Revolt, the choreographers, dancers and researchers connected to ICK make new connections with each other, with themselves (their own body) and with society (other bodies).

Greco and Scholten have made clear which three factors are necessary for ICK in a performance. They combine the underlying train of thought of their own performances in the elements: spectacle - body - miracle. They also recognise these three elements in the work of the choreographers invited and supported by ICK.

Spectacle: the turmoil, disturbance, spectacle and tumult. It is the crack in the canvas, the tilt in the performance. It is the rebellion. The stimulus for the brain.

Body: the frame of reference to give meaning to dance. It is the umbrella term for an artistic investigation into all the possible meanings a body can carry.

Miracle: that which cannot be grasped, the revelation: 'you don't understand it but you feel that it is right'. The mystical. The pure beauty that manifests itself in a space in between.

From 2020, the dreamy rebel Don(na) Quixote will be added to this as an important source of inspiration. His (or her) rücksichtslos (ruthless) idealism will set the tone in all activities.

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