ICK DANS AMSTERDAM - EMIO GRECO / PIETER C SCHOLTEN

BLASPHEMY RHAPSODY

The fickleness of certainties

ph_Alwin Poiana
  • 4 November 2020 - 21:00 Teatro Comunale -
TICKET PRICES FULL PRICE REDUCED RATES PRIME
Stalls 35.00 28.00 44.00
Central Box – Front Row 35.00 28.00 44.00
Central Box – Second Row 29.00 23.00
Side Box – Front Row 29.00 23.00
Lower Gallery – Front Row 25.00 20.00
Upper Gallery – Front Row 15.00

Reduced rates for the under 30 year olds: 40% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
Reduced group rates (new season ticket holders): 15% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
Over 65’s reduced rates: 20% off full price tickets for each sector excluding PRIME area seats and the gallery.
PRIME area seats: stalls and central stage front row. The best seats in the house for comfort, visibility and acoustics. An all round PRIME experience.

ideation and choreography

Emio Greco / Pieter C Scholten

dance

Victor Callens, Beatrice Cardone, Denis Bruno, Edward Lloyd, Hiroki Nunogaki, Maria Ribas, Emio Greco

lights

Henk Danner

costumes

Clifford Portier

video

Robin Coops

sound design

Pieter C. Scholten

Sound design

David te Marvelde

reflections and research

Florian Hellwig, Jesse Vanhoeck

technicians

Maarten Heijdra, Hugo van der Veldt

NATIONAL PREMIÈRE

Like a virus needs a body
As soft tissue feeds on blood
Some day I’ll find you, the urge is here
(Bjork, Like a virus)

How to curb transience: touch the divine or devour the ground? Keep your distance or hug yourself to death? In Blasphemy Rhapsody we follow the trail of an unprecedented virus. The calm before the storm. We spread our wings. Around the World by Daftpunk beats in the background. At the first breath of wind we start moving. Even if we are pushed up, our feet remain firmly anchored to the ground. Blasphemy Rhapsody becomes a dance rite in which certainties are sacrificed. An invitation to embrace the mutability of life. A ceremony in which the reality of the earth nestles in holiness.
Blasphemy Rhapsody arises in exceptional circumstances, during the Coronavirus Emergency. In this time spent not in the dance studio, but in the “sacred” space of home, the dancers worked on a solo based on the steps of the Charleston and the ecstatic dance of the Pizzica.
The concept of perseverance that unites these two dances, distant in time and place, is the basis of this new work: the distortion of the limbs, the submission to rhythm, the joy and the tragedy, together: the way we dance will never be separated from the way we live as a community.