Rhino Dance Marathon: celebrating 30 years of the intuitive body

RHINO DANCE MARATHON
30 years of the power and vulnerability of the intuitive body

On July 10 and 11, Space for Dance Art opens its doors for an adventurous evening: the Rhino Dance Marathon. A dynamic journey through dance, image, text, sound, and memory – drawn from three decades of dance practice by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.

Don(na) Quichot kicks things off with a musical intervention. What follows is a living tapestry of scenes, images, and bodies that appear, disappear, and re-emerge in shifting constellations.

Classics from thirty years of EG | PC are brought back to life. You’ll recognize fragments from Bianco, Extra Dry, One (Bolero), Conjunto di Nero, Rimasto Orfano, Hell, Teorema, and The Sopranos, performed by dancers from the current ICK Ensemble, ICK-Next, and former ICK dancers from the early years.

There is also space for new voices and fresh ferocity – in works by creators such as Melisa Diktas, Fernando Troya, and David Feenstra, who pick up threads from ICK’s past and pull them into the now.

You’ll encounter objects and motifs from earlier performances – the gate and tree from Hell, the glass sphere from In Visione, the sweat-soaked dress from ROSSO – and see film clips from the Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show. A VR headset shifts your perspective and transports you to a timeless, ever-present performance space. In the black box, you’ll come across an AI installation that responds live to a dancer’s intuition.

Every space opens a different experience, with its own laws of time, rhythm, and intensity. The Rhino Dance Marathon is not a performance, but a movement. Step inside.

Rhino Dance Marathon is part of Julidans Festival 2025

Why the Rhino?
Throughout the evening, you’ll experience both the strength and vulnerability of the body — symbolised by the rhinoceros, a recurring figure in the work of EG | PC. In Addio alla Fine, the rhino is cast off into a lifeboat, a burden to high society. But when the boat sinks, he survives together with a journalist. They travel toward the horizon: the rhino as a sign of a new beginning.