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Emio Greco|PC
For Italian choreographer Emio Greco and Dutch theatre director Pieter C. Scholten, curiosity about the body and its inner motives serves as the starting point of the dance. Collaborators since 1995, their work belongs in the domain of contemporary dance even as it incorporates, transforms and questions classical elements in a constantly changing context. Greco and Scholten make a contemporary dance that cuts its own path through established paradigms.
Emio Greco | PC create new dances, collaborate with artists from other artistic disciplines, explore the possibilities and limits of dance and transfer their new insights to others through workshops at home and abroad. In addition, the company actively stimulates the discourse on dance in general.
Critics laud the company's quality, originality and authenticity. In 1999, Emio Greco | PC won the Philip Morris Arts Prize for dance for "...the well thought-out and logical way in which they explore their central theme in an original and surprising way, both choreographically and dramatically." In 2001 they won the Sonia Gaskell Prize for Choreography, awarded by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, for the entire Double Points series. That same year, they won the Herald Angel at the Edinburgh International Festival, for Double Points: One & Two, awarded by the critics of the Scottish newspaper, The Herald. In January, 2004, Emio Greco received London's Time Out Live Award.
The huge success of the Company's first major North American tour, produced by MAPP, in spring 2005 of Rimasto Orfano and Double Points: One & Two was followed by two engagements in January 2006 of Conjunto di NERO at White Bird in Portland, OR and the Joyce Theater in New York City. In late 2006-2007 the company returned for the seven-city U.S. tour of Hell.