Emio Greco|Pieter C.

Double points: Verdi

02-11-2013 Schouwburg Arnhem.

Choreography | Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten

Concept and Design | Pieter C. Scholten

Performers | Helena Volkov, Suzan Tunca and Kelly Hirina

Costume Design | Clifford Portier

Light Design | Henk Danner

Production | ICKamsterdam

Duration Performance | ca. 60 minutes

The most innovative, eccentric figure of the contemporary dance panorama, Emio Greco presents an incredible piece called Double Points.

Performed by  Helena Volkov, Suzan Tunca and Kelly Hirina, the work combines ballet elements with Postmodern dance elements; the collaboration between Emio Greco and Pieter C. Sholten, started in 1995, has resulted as a language where the precision of the research is combined with the minimalism.

 The piece is centred on three heroines of history and literature who Giuseppe Verdi set to music. Three brave women who have had the strength to subvert the established order, to overcome their troubled fate: Violetta from “La Traviata”, Giovanna from “Giovanna D’Arco” and Desdemona from “Otello”. Profoundly different from each other they are anyway connected by the same tragic end.

Double Points: Verdi is the second work that Greco and Scholten realize in regard to Giuseppe Verdi. In 2012 they chosed for the creation of “Addio alla fine” The Strength of Destiny, where they were dealing with the question of ”How to look at and how to eventually change our own destiny”; theme that in part comes back into this new show adding more irony. 

Accompanied by well-known sopranos such as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Joan Sutherland, the piece is characterized by deep, energetic, strong movements, where the discipline of dancing is continuously filled by eccentricity. Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten have been able to focus on body language, decoding its interpretations.

It’s a really interesting piece, with thousand facets, that focuses on the physicality of the body. It’s a bridge between strenght and fragility, a mix of expressiveness and neutrality, a show that goes over the bounderies of dance and opera. I gained a lot of inspiration after seeing the piece, I was always awake waiting for something, focusing on what was going on. The dancers performed the piece very well.

Here a short video from the piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZK_YV9S4WQ

Davide Andrea Calabrese.