ICK - WE, the EYES
Sound design for dance performance by ICKIn WE, the EYES, the survivors after a devastating fire are searching for true life, for connection with their instincts, intuition and with each other. The group makes its way from total darkness to the light, to new forms of existence, life and identity.
Somewhere there seems to be fire. How can they play lustily with the fire again without burning up? How do they find a balance between fatalism and hope, between end times and future, between burning down and building up, between breath and breathlessness?
Dates:
June 23, 2023 - Ravenna (it)
October 28, 2023 - Amsterdam (nl)
Februari 17, 2024 - Den Hague (nl)
March 1, 2024 - Rotterdam (nl)
March 5, 2024 - Roosendaal (nl)
March 7, 2024 - Haarlem (nl)
March 27, 2024 - Almere (nl)
March 29, 2024 - Tilburg (nl)
More info on dates at www.ickamsterdam.com
A dominating screen in the shape of a monolith orates seven times with frenzied images between reality and fiction. Is it a deluded medium or seer, an educator or demagogue, a liar or philosopher? Ten performers burn loose, beat the drum, shout it out, throw mud, stoke the fire, dance the souls out of their bodies. In short, the playground as a force field for learning to look, to see and not to see. A sanctuary to deplore, accept to tilt glances and change perspectives.
WE, the EYES depicts a micro-society that emerges out of nowhere at a given moment and brings bodies together in the here and now. How can we be fellow human beings now? What forms of empathy are possible? What will we discover together when we are "WE".
What will our identity then consist of?
To the music and sound of rock, bodysound, electronic, experimental and classical music, the performers break through to a new world, fuelled by vocals, beats and rhythms of percussion. The bodies are mass and individual, guilt and innocence.
WE, the EYES aims to question perspectives in a society in crisis and claims change. After WE, the BREATH, it is the second performance in the WE Cycle. ICK is convinced that we are going to experience profound changes in the time to come, but we are currently blind to the deeper dimension that inhibits us. The WE projects give a stage to the journey, which we are taking together as humanity
Concept and choreography: Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
Dancers: Denis Bruno, Dennis van Herpen, Victor Swank, Hiroki Nunogaki, Sixtine Biro, Jordaine Lincoln and Giacomo de Luca
Percussion: Agostinho Sequeira & Dániel Bolba
Vocals: Pink Oculus
Video: Ruben van Leer
Light: Henk Danner, Israël Del Barco
Costume: Clifford Portier
Rehearsal director: Dereck Cayla
Dramaturgy: Florian Hellwig
Technicans: Hugo van der Veldt, Israël Del Barco
Coproduction: Le Manège, Scène National de Maubeuge (F), Ravenna Festival (IT)
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