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ICK Dans Amsterdam (International Choreographic Arts Centre) is a platform for contemporary dance led by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. ICK creates and produces international dance performances (Company), supports the development of talented dancers and choreographers (ICK NEXT junior company and Artist Space) and has its own knowledge centre in which dance research and educational programmes are developed (ICK Academy). ICK is located in Space for Dance Art where performances, lectures, workshops and symposia take place.
ICK is involved in using, testing, evaluating and co-designing the tools and technologies with expertise in choreographic creation, signature specific dance notation research and intuitive body knowledge. ICK will contribute to the development and creative application scenarios of the Dance Style Analysis and Generation Enabler (T.3.1) and the Music to Movement Translation Enabler for Dance (T.3.2). ICK will also realize Pilot 3: Archetype Alchemy (T5.3) in collaboration with AUTH, CYENS & CERTH. ICK brings in a creative team of choreographers, researchers and dancers who will elaborate verbal descriptions of choreographic archetypes based on corresponding choreographic examples. ICK will experiment with how this knowledge will inform the development of the AI enablers to generate novel dance movements and approaches to choreographic creation that synchronize movement across ideal typical virtual and concretely physical dimensions of experience.
Meet the Team
Pieter C. Scholten
Artistic Director of ICK
Pieter C. Scholten and Emio Greco created their first collaborative work in 1995: the solo Bianco, which became the first part of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento (Between brain and movement). Their artistic credo and its reflection in the body and the viewer was summarized in a manifesto with 7 dance principles: The Seven Necessities (1996). In 1996 they founded the dance company Emio Greco | PC. In 2009 Greco and Scholten merged all their activities into the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK Dans Amsterdam). For their internationally successful dance productions, Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten received numerous prizes, among which the Gouden Zwaan 2021 in appreciation of their significant contribution to Dutch dance.
Emio Greco
Artistic Director of ICK
Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten created their first collaborative work in 1995: the solo Bianco, which became the first part of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento (Between brain and movement). Their artistic credo and its reflection in the body and the viewer was summarized in a manifesto with 7 dance principles: The Seven Necessities (1996). In 1996 they founded the dance company Emio Greco | PC. In 2009 Greco and Scholten merged all their activities into the International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK Dans Amsterdam). For their internationally successful dance productions, Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten received numerous prizes, among which the Gouden Zwaan 2021 in appreciation of their significant contribution to Dutch dance.
Suzan Tunca
PhD, ICK Academy, Researcher
Dr. Suzan Tunca (Türkiye/Germany) works as a dance researcher, performance artist, choreographer and educator and is responsible for the ICK Academy. In 2023, she obtained her PhD at PhDArts at Leiden University with research into a “dancing language” in which she brings together bodily theory and discursive practice. She previously completed an rMA artistic research at the University of Amsterdam and is an alumna of the first third cycle performing arts practice research program in the Netherlands DAS THIRD (Amsterdam University of the Arts). She accompanies and supervises artistic research of dance artists in professional practice and in educational trajectories at PhD, MA and BA levels at Leiden University, DAS Choreography, Codarts and Fontys, among others. Since 2025, Suzan is a member of the Route Kunst, an advisory steering group for arts research at the Dutch Science Agenda.
Francesco Cutillo
Junior Research Assistant and Producer
Francesco Cutillo (1998), RMA, holds a BA in Philosophy from Università di Siena, obtained an RMA in Theater Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle, and has a background as a performer. Since 2023, he has been working at ICK on projects at the intersection of dance and new technologies. He supported the artistic research, motion capture, and production of the dance opera WE, the LUST, and is currently a research assistant on behalf of ICK for the HorizonEU innovation project PREMiERE. Previously, he worked at La Biennale di Venezia, developing educational tracks for its Dance and Music programs.
Harmen Spreen
Financial Controller
Harmen Spreen, MA, Dutch citizen, living in Amstelveen with partner and one daughter, followed the Master of Science in Accountancy (part-time) at the Nyenrode Business University (1984-2002) in Breukelen (NL). During that period he worked in various roles for the Dutch audit firm KPMG, Amsterdam branch. From 2002 he was head of administration for a publisher in tax documentation, manager finance for a Sports and Leisure company and since 2018 employed as controller and HR-manager by ICK Dans Amsterdam.
Funded by the European Union [GA 101178362]. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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