In “HELL”, Emio Greco and Pieter C.Scholten delve into and explore the components of different forms, fashions, and compositions in dance, and they examine how these might be decoded and interpreted. This research is based on an approach allowing the boundaries of our physical identity to be pushed back. During the composition process, connotations and associations established around the concept of hell are dismantled and broken down to give them new meaning. Greco and Scholten draw their inspiration from the plastic arts, performing arts, music and literature, in particular Dante's “Inferno” and Beethoven's “Fifth Symphony”. By bringing their own interpretation to certain classical works, they shed new light on them and raise real questions about existence.

Source : Maison de la Danse programme

Credits

Chorégraphie Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten conception lumières, scénographie et son Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten assistante des chorégraphes Bertha Bermudez Pascual lumièresHenk Danner costumes Clifford Portier musiques montage avec entre autres l'«Allegro con brio» de la Cinquième Symphonie de Beethoven remerciement spécial à Joost Rekveld danseurs Ty Boomershine, Vincent Colomes, Sawami Fukuoka, Emio Greco, Marta Lopes, Nicola Monaco, Marie Sinnaeve, Suzan Tunca assistante à la production, technique Melissa van Geldere techniciens Paul Beumer, Melissa van Geldere, Sander Loonen 

Production Emio Greco | PC coproduction Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival Montpellier Danse 2006, Maison de la Culture Amiens, barbicanbite07 (Londres), Cankarjev Dom (Ljubliana), Julidans 2006 (Amsterdam)

Emio Greco | PC reçoit des subventions du Ministère de l'Enseignement, de la Culture et des Sciences des Pays-Bas ainsi que du FAPK.
Réalisation vidéo Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2006 production Maison de la Danse
Durée de l'œuvre 1h40

Emio Greco was born in 1965 in Brindisi, a port in southern Italy, into a modest peasant-farming family. A classically-trained dancer, he spent three years at the Rosella Hightower Centre in Cannes before joining the Ballet Antibes Côte d'Azur. But it was while dancing with Jan Fabre, from 1993 to1996, that he revealed his fabulous talent as a performer. Marrying his instinctive and spontaneous approach to the figurative and visual world of Jan Fabre, Emio Greco savoured this taste for “the skin of the animal”, this fragile and violent creature cowering within us which rebels against the rules that safeguard harmonies and disciplines. In 1996 he joined the Karas company, run by Japanese choreographer and sculptor Saburo Teshigawara, for whom the body is a sculpture brought to life and which its maker animates in space and light, a genesis impregnated with spirituality and oriental aesthetics. There is no doubt that Saburo Teshigawara conveyed to him the idea of the specific potential which, according to him, lies in the transience of this art: dance is born of the acute awareness of what is and what will be. Having absorbed the wealth this fine and incisive choreographic culture, Emio Greco undertook his own choreographic and research project in parallel after meeting the director Pieter C. Scholten in 1995, relentlessly searching for new ways to allow the body's wisdom to express itself.

With Pieter C. Scholten, he founded the company EG | PC in Amsterdam, which works on a triple principle of contemporary creation, interdisciplinary exchanges – within the framework of International Choreographic Art Center Amsterdam (ICKamsterdam) which they also founded and which houses their company – and teaching, provided by the Accademia Mobile. Experimental in its principle (Bianco, Rosso, Extra Dry, a trilogy, 1996-2000), the dance of Greco and Scholten has been developing since 1998 around the concept of Double Points, short pieces which are similar to the events of Merce Cunningham. Their dance also appropriates traditional heritage, through a tetralogy which explores Dante's Divine Comedy – the first three parts being Hell (2006), then Popopera and In visione ([Purgatory], 2006-2008) – and through the rediscovery (and reinterpretation) of Bach, whose St Matthew Passion inspires the music accompanying the solo by Emio Greco in In visione.
 

Source : Maison de la Danse 

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Author, filmmaker and video artist Charles Picq (1952-2012) entered working life in the 70s through theatre and photography. A- fter resuming his studies (Maîtrise de Linguistique - Lyon ii, Maîtrise des sciences et Techniques de la Communication - grenoble iii), he then focused on video, first in the field of fine arts at the espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain (ELAC) and with the group « Frigo », and then in dance.
   On creation of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon in 1980, he was asked to undertake a video documentation project that he has continued ever since. During the ‘80s, a decade marked in France by the explosion of contemporary dance and the development of video, he met numerous artists such as andy Degroat, Dominique Bagouet, Carolyn Carlson, régine Chopinot, susanne Linke, Joëlle Bouvier and regis Obadia, Michel Kelemenis. He worked in the creative field with installations and on-stage video, as well as in television with recorded shows, entertainment and documentaries.

His work with Dominique Bagouet (80-90) was a unique encounter. He documents his creativity, assisting with Le Crawl de Lucien and co-directing with his films Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux and 10 anges. in the 90s he became director of video development for the Maison de la Danse and worked, with the support of guy Darmet and his team, in the growing space of theatre video through several initiatives:
       - He founded a video library of dance films with free public access. This was a first for France. Continuing the video documentation of theatre performances, he organised their management and storage.
       - He promoted the creation of a video-bar and projection room, both dedicated to welcoming school pupils.
       - He started «présentations de saisons» in pictures.
       - He oversaw the DVD publication of Le tour du monde en 80 danses, a pocket video library produced by the Maison de la Danse for the educational sector.

       - He launched the series “scènes d'écran” for television and online. He undertook the video library's digital conversion and created Numeridanse.

His main documentaries are: enchaînement, Planète Bagouet, Montpellier le saut de l'ange, Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces, grand ecart, Mama africa, C'est pas facile, Lyon, le pas de deux d'une ville, Le Défilé, Un rêve de cirque.

He has also produced theatre films: Song, Vu d'ici (Carolyn Carlson), Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux, 10 anges, Necesito and So schnell, (Dominique Bagouet), Im bade wannen, Flut and Wandelung (Susanne Linke), Le Cabaret Latin (Karine Saporta), La danse du temps (Régine Chopinot), Nuit Blanche (Abou Lagraa), Le Témoin (Claude Brumachon), Corps est graphique (Käfig), Seule et WMD (Françoise et Dominique Dupuy), La Veillée des abysses (James Thiérrée), Agwa (Mourad Merzouki), Fuenteovejuna (Antonio Gades), Blue Lady revistied (Carolyn Carlson).

Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon

Starting in 1995 from curiosity about the body and its inner motives,  the Italian dancer and choreographer Emio Greco and the director of  alternative theatre Pieter C. Scholten developed a universe and a  writing forged out of tension and synchronicity, borrowing as much from  classical vocabulary as from post-modern dance. By their strange  theatricality, the luminous set design in dialogue with the chosen  music, each piece become an enigmatic fiction of the flesh.

In 2009 Emio Greco et Pieter C. Scholten created ICK in Amsterdam, a  multidisciplinary international platform. Also directors of the Ballet  National de Marseille from 2014 to 2018, their work focuses on the theme  of the body from two perspectives: "the body in revolt" or the place of  the artist in society and "the corps du ballet" or the search for a new  form of contemporary ballet.

Their most recent creations include La Commedia (2011), Rocco (2011), Passione in Due (2012), Addio alla fine (2012), A Man without a Cause (2013), De Soprano’s (2014), Le Corps du Ballet National de Marseille, Boléro, Passione and Extremalism (2015), Momentum (2016), Corpi Ingrati (2017), the diptych Appearance (2017) I Disapppearance (2019), Rocca (2018), Non solo Medea (2018) and Les Cygnes et les autres (2018).