The Netherlands – Dewey Dell and Nicola Galli at ICK-Fest Amsterdam
ICK-Fest is the festival organized by ICK Dans Amsterdam, the international centre dedicated to contemporary dance directed by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.
The 2021 edition takes place from November 26 to 28 at the Meervaart Theater – a full three-day program that shows both ICK's own works and those by promising makers from abroad, in a form summed up as follows: four generations of dancers on one stage and an audience that decides on the choreography.
Two companies from Emilia-Romagna are proposed in the international programming.
On November 27, Dewey Dell company is on stage with Hamlet, new creation that premiered at the Tanznacht Berlin last July.
Teodora, Agata and Demetrio Castellucci take this iconic theatre character as the starting point for a highly expressive dance performance in which Hamlet’s mental state – immobilised by the order to avenge his father’s murder – is related to the condition of a person being possessed, when the body belongs to someone else.
Dewey Dell gives Hamlet a new ‘dress’: he becomes nothing but a container, a tunic of skin that will be worn by someone else.
On November 28, it is the turn of Nicola Galli, artist supported by TIR Danza, with Genoma scenico, an interactive dance performance based on the close relationship between audience and dancers. It is structured as a game session in which people are engaged in the creation of short choreographies by means of a playful device freely inspired by genomic research.
The ICK-Fest – which has already hosted Nicola Galli in 2019 – also proposes the choreographer’s video-art project PANORAMA, developed with director and visual artist Davide De Lillis, that will be on view all weekend.
The tour is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam and ATER Fondazione.
