Ever since its founding in 1995, Amsterdam-based dance company Emio Greco | PC has dedicated itself to the creation of dance at the cutting edge. The initial inspiration for the group’s search for the fundamental characteristics of dance arose from a sense of curiosity about the human body and its inner drives. Collaborative relationships with other disciplines and commitment to reflection on the company’s own practice are also becoming increasingly important to the group. For example, the company became well known as a forum for professional colleagues, critics, scientists and dramaturges with their Dance & Discourse salons, which ran for several years. And, as early as 2005, the company developed an educational programme entitled Academia Mobile, making a start on research into dance notation, re-creation and transmission. The first phase of the research project concluded with a documentary about the Double Skin/Double Mind workshop. The second phase, a collaboration with the LKAO, resulted in the creation of a wide-ranging research team of experts in the areas of dance notation, film, digital movement analysis, interactive media design and cognitive science. This phase also saw the first involvement of the international research institute IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique), which in addition to continued to collaborate as a member of the research team, will now function as one of the two dissemination platforms. The interim results serve as an instrumental departure point for this innovation programme. They comprise a prototype for the spatial dance workshop installation, the book publication Capturing Intention and the first steps towards an interactive DVD-ROM archive.
Inside Movement Knowledge is also meeting with very positive responses at the Centre for International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICK), which the company set up as an international platform along with the LKAO and the Theatre School as partners. This initiative was received with great enthusiasm by the City of Amsterdam and the Culture Council, and the company has now established formally established itself as a part of ICKamsterdam – Emio Greco | PC.EG | PC is therefore not only an artistic participant in the innovation programme; it is a fully developed research organisation on a par with other exceptional, world-class dance companies (see ‘International associates network’).
Biographies
All Photos: Thomas Lenden
 Pieter C. Scholten  Emio Greco Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten have collaborated in their joint search for new dance forms since 1995. They found a strong common interest in the possibility of a dance seen as the expression of a visionary body, with the theatrical space as the external influence on that body. In their performances, dance is regarded as autonomous, and capable of creating its own time and space. Dance is never brought into action as a medium for conveying, nor for dressing a theatrical space. Instead, dance is perceived as possessing an inherent logic, by which it is able to express the intelligence of the body without needing the addition of meaning or explication. All the elements of a performance – the space, the lighting, the sound – are applied throughout the working process with a view to eliciting from the body the impulses that are driving its self-examination. |
 Bertha Bermudez (Research Group Leader) Bertha Bermúdez Pascual was a dancer in some of Europe’s leading dance companies, Frankfurt Ballet, Compañia Nacional de Danza in Madrid, loan calculator with interest
and since 1998 with Emio Greco | PC. Having turned towards research work in dance documentation and notation, Bermúdez has been part of the research group Art Practice and Development, headed by Marijke Hoogenboom, since 2007. Her focuses on the theme Dance Transmission as a source for dance documentation and since 2009 coordinator of the Accademia Mobile section of research and education within ICKamsterdam-Emio Greco | PC. |
 Chris Ziegler (Research Group Member) Chris Ziegler works as a media artist and director in international collaborations on the interdisciplinary combination of new media with the performing arts. Ziegler’s CD / DVD-ROM projects e.g. for Frankfurt Ballet, interactive film installations, multimedia performances, and theater works in dance, performance, music theater are presented regularly at artfestivals. He taught in the EU’s Dance Dance Apprentices Network Across Europe (DANCE) and is currently “Asoociate Artist” at the ZKM | Karlsruhe and lecturer in “Inside Knowledge Movement”at the Amsterdam School for the Arts. |
 Frédéric Bevilacqua (Research Group Member) Frédéric Bevilacqua (Paris) is researcher at IRCAM on gesture analysis and interactive systems in the Real Time Applications Team and in the Performing Arts Technology Research Team. He holds a master in physics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Optics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. |
 Barbara Meneses (Research Group Member) Bàrbara Meneses Gutiérrez (Barcelona)graduated in 1999 from contemporary dance school P.A.R.T.S in Brussels and was a member of EG|PC company from 2000 till 2006. After two years break form the dance scene she’s currently collaborating with ICK Amsterdam- EG|PC company in diferent projects as well as being a guest teacher at the SNDO and MDT departments of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (AHK). |
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After a double course in Applied mathematics and dance(classical and contemporary), Sarah Fdili Alaoui is doing a PHD co-directed by Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS) and Frédéric Bevilacqua (Ircam). She is interested in dance movement recognition in real time through a study of the gesture analysis methods that take into account the quality of movement for the control of graphic feedback with physical models. Sarah is working with the DSDM installation to apply this model to the play mode part of the installation. |
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Martin Bellardi was introduced to multi-media arts during his studies in design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. His research focuses on the appearance and the effect of various media. Martin’s collaboration with other artists has led to the development of the internet sound project ‘I/Osonic’ with ORF-Kunstradio, the interactive room installation ‘Volume over Lumen’ with Anne Delakowitz for ‘Sonambiente Berlin 2006’, ‘Forest 2’ with Chris Ziegler for the TanzMedienAkademie Weimar, ‘Hide and Seek’ with LaborGras and ‘Habitat’ with Volker Schnüttgen. |
