Powerful punches, quick footwork, and virtuoso tactics in exhausting rounds between boxer and dancer (M/F/X)

Take your seat around the boxing ring where dancers become boxers and boxers become dancers. Challenging each other with powerful punches, quick footwork, and virtuoso tactics, relationships are put to the test in exhausting rounds.

ROCCO/ROCCA is based on the Italian film Rocco e i suoi fratelli by director Visconti. This film tells a story of brotherly love and the struggle for a better existence. The dancers embody this brotherly or sisterly love: good and evil, the devil and the angel, androgynous, incestuous. “A hypnotic trip, with a tension that rises until nothing else seems to exist but two physically and emotionally boiling bodies,” writes de Volkskrant about this performance. Equal

ROCCO was awarded the Swan for the most impressive dance production in 2012. The production has since been performed all over the world, and dancer Christian Guerematchi was nominated for the most impressive dance performance. In 2015, ROCCA was presented by Ballet Nationale de Marseille with an all-female cast. This international success can now be seen as ROCCO/ROCCA, a performance in which gender no longer matters. Men and women are equal, also in their intense physical and emotional surrender to both desire and struggle.

About ICK Dans Amsterdam
The choreographic duo Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten creates intensely physical dance performances in which the intuitive, curious body takes center stage. A body in revolt, which refuses to conform to imposed (dance) forms, but elevates itself to measure in its movement through time, space, and form. With this uncompromising starting point, the company has developed a distinctive movement vocabulary that is characteristic of their entire oeuvre.

Source : PLT Website