ICK - WE the LUST
Sound design for dance performance"The passion for living burns like an insatiable flame, dancing on the edge between redemption and damnation, with the fervor of gods and the envy of demons." – Ai Signature
Inspired by Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, this multidimensional performance deeply explores the human survival instinct. NOUS, le RADEAU /WE, the LUST takes the audience on a floating raft navigating the waves of passion – this ambiguous current of desire and madness, loss of control, suffering and joy and euphoria. From a chaotic crescendo to a slow reduction to a burning core, choreographers Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten and composer Franck Krawczyk probe the depths of human existence. During this journey, passion is a drifting force in search of more desire, offering hope, hallucination, erotic taboo, and brutality, leaving the body exhausted but open to new utopias.
How can we make our humanity more human? What do we do with our growing impulses? Which paths should we take in this era? Dancers, musicians, and a large choir embrace madness and surf the waves of desire: WE, the LUST. Together, they form the heart of a broad spectrum of dynamic energies. They represent that untamed force within each of us that emerges in those moments where our existence is challenged.
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Quotes:
"Dancers, musicians, technical team: the unity and synchronicity with which we worked toward a shared vision made us reconsider what society, individuality, and community mean. What makes us human, our differences and connections to animal, god, demon and machine. The boundary between the physical, the spiritual, and the digital has shifted and continues to resonate in the performances." – Choir member, Paris
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"ecstatic and all-encompassing creation, a journey into the heart of human magma."
The precise and versatile scenography, the lighting, and the collective effort of all involved create an unimaginable result that only art can achieve.
This is a cult-worthy performance that deserves international success and a return to Paris, allowing us to vibrate and journey on the raft, emerging transformed by the human experience.
– Cult News, Bérénice Clerc (10.12.204)
Choreography by Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
Music Composition and Adaptation by Franck Krawczyk
Sound Design by Salvador Breed
SOLOISTS
Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello
Wilhem Latchoumia, piano
Carjez Gerretsen, clarinet
BOUCAN: (photo) Benjamin Munier, bass / Raphaël Aboulker, drum
Assistant Choreographer and dancer: Victor Callens
Rehearsal Director: Vincent Colomes
Dancers ICK Ensemble: Hiroki Nunogaki, Jordaine Lincoln, Sixtine Biron, Ricardo Vasquez Allen, Payton St.John, Clive Rudd
Dancer ICK Next (Junior Company): Alessio Cavazzana
Lighting and Set Design by Israel del Barco
Technic: Bas van der Gun
Costume Design: Clifford Portier
Artistic Research: Francesco Cutillo
Dramaturgy: Florian Hellwig
Directing assistant: Alper Kaya Bayrakli
Ai Development: Jorrit Tamminga, Farzaneh Nouri,
Creation technology: Nathan Marcus
Ai Development location: AHK - IDlab, Amsterdam
Ai Toolbox by Instituto Stocos | PREMIERE EU
Premiere: 6 December 2024 - Philharmonie de Paris
Produced by Philharmonie de Paris
Co-produced by ICK Dans Amsterdam)
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