Programme
Thu 10 Jul
up to
Fri 11 Jul
20.30
Celebrating 30 years EG | PC

Rhino Dance Marathon

Rhino Dance Marathon

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30 years of exploring the intuitive body in motion

On July 10 and 11, Space for Dance Art opens its doors for an intense evening: the Rhino Dance Marathon. A moving journey of dance, image, text, sound, and memory — built on three decades of dance practice by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.

You’ll wander through seven spaces where past and present works intertwine. Thirty markers from their oeuvre reappear — not as a retrospective, but as active traces: video fragments, worn costumes, meaningful objects, and texts that address the body as a site of memory. Among them, short performances, installations, and interventions by new makers emerge, resonating with the DNA of ICK.

And the Rhino? It travels along. The rhinoceros is both powerful and vulnerable. It embodies a body in motion, slow yet persistent, moving against the current. In the site-specific performance Addio alla Fine (Holland Festival 2012), a rhinoceros appears in a rowboat, drifting on water — an image referencing Fellini’s film E la Nave Va, in which a cruise ship full of cultural elites slowly sinks. Only the Rhino remains, transferred into a lifeboat drifting toward an unknown future. Not as a remnant, but as an omen.

The Rhino Dance Marathon is not a performance, but a movement. Step into it.
The line-up of performers and guest artists will be announced soon.

Rhino Dance Marathon is part of Julidans

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— Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten

Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten created their first collaborative work in 1995; the solo Bianco, which became the first part of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento (Between brain and movement). In these early solos, Greco expressed a curious, searching body and gave the impression of being surprised by what happens to his own movements, at how his muscles tense and relax. Their thoughts were summarised in a manifesto with 7 dance principles, The Seven Necessities (1996), and its influence on the body and the viewer. In 1996 they founded the dance company Emio Greco | PC. In 2009 Greco and Scholten merged all their activities into the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK Dans Amsterdam).

For their internationally successful dance productions, Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten twice received the Zwaan Most Impressive Dance Production: for La Divina Commedia: HELL (2006) and ROCCO (2011). In 2021 they received a third, Gouden Zwaan, from the hands of Minister van Engelshoven, in appreciation of their great contribution to Dutch dance.