Books

The Notation Research Project, an ongoing initiative by Emio Greco | PC since 2004, has reached a major milestone with the completion of its second phase. The outcomes of this phase of research, based on the Double Skin/Double Mind workshop, are available now in the book Capturing Intention that contains a film documentary and an interactive DVD-ROM.

Inside the reader you will find materials from a multi-disciplinary research team comprising experts in notation systems, cinematography, computer based gesture analysis, interactive media design, cognition research and cultural studies. The volume contains contributions by Marion Bastien, Bertha Bermúdez, Maite Bermúdez, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Maaike Bleeker, Franz Anton Cramer, Scott deLahunta, Marijke Hoogenboom, Corinne Jola, Susan Melrose, Eliane Mirzabekiantz and Chris Ziegler.

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From march 2005 until April 2006, Emio Greco | PC were artists in residence at the Theaterschool, Amsterdam. This residency presented a welcome opportunity to look further into strategies of transfer. The resulting publication, Company in the School, does not give the reader an overview of all activities, nor an evaluation of the residency, but rather provides an insight into the ongoing discussions around notions of contemporary dance making, transfer, repertoire and reconstruction.

With contributions by Maaike Bleeker, Ingrid van Schijndel, Jeroen Fabius a.o.

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A publication series profiling contemporary European choreographers from Italian publisher l'Epos, devoted one part to Emio Greco | PC. Danceforword / Danceforward: Emio Greco | PC by Ada d'Adamo, appeared in October 2004, consisting of an interview with Emio Greco and a photographic impression of the entire oeuvre.

"Three colours of the trilogy become three tastes of Martini, the undertitle of 'Double Points: Bertha' is "The Bermúdez Triangle" with a word game reference to the Bermudan Triangle and the name of the dancer Bertha Bermúdez Pascual. Your work has a quasi spiritual tone. Which role has irony in all that?" Emio Greco | PC: "Irony wins. It's an indispensable sign of vitality and capacity of reflection that is part of the contradiction. Irony is a profanation of the sacred."

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This book, scientifically founded, brings a large part of Emio Greco | PC’s activities together: starting with the formation years of Emio Greco, the author describes the forging of the collaboration between Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten and also gives a poignant analysis of many EG | PC productions.

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In 2001 Emio Greco | PC collaborated with Flemish philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche to produce the essay It's life Jim, but not as we know it, in which he examines the various motifs and motivations of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento.

"In the trilogy there is more at stake than the overt friction between mind and body: it embodies likewise the tension between order and disorder, control and chaos, conscious intention and unconscious desire. As such it is a statement on the essence of dance. It not only shows the tension between choreographic design and vicissitudes (constant changes, constant alternation, unpredictable changes or variations, shifting circumstances) of performance, but it also shows that, as soon as dance speaks the language of the body, its transparency is untenable and a thing of the past: it becomes visceral, instinctive, obstinate and unmastered."

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