Conjunto di NERO

Lighting is an integral element of each performance. It is used to create an atmosphere and change the landscape as well as to reveal and to hide.

In Conjunto di NERO the dancers, lighting and space come together creating an ever-changing world where the dance drives the light and the light drives the dance. Brightness and darkness alternate, separating the tangible from the intangible, movement from stillness.

The accelerating dynamics of the piece culminates with the dancers being confronted by their physical limitations and choosing to abandon their quest for harmony. The lone figure of Emio Greco is left behind to consider the next move.

Production - Emio Greco | PC Co-production - Montpellier Danse (F); Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes (F)

"Greco and Scholten seek to know more of why darkness affects us so. Why it clouds our ability to judge distances, time, even the presence of others […] By plunging the stage into varying degrees of blanketing black, by having dancers appear like shadows of themselves, Greco and Scholten initiate a dialogue between supposition and reality. As the dancers negotiate the space: coming together, moving apart, disappearing, fascinating questions about „definition“ and about „finding yourself“ subtly twine into their movements, their very positioning in the gloom. How can you create connection, establish some system of logic, if nothing can be converntionally mapped out?" Mary Brennan – Edinburgh Festival Programme – Augustus 2002

"The six dancers, including Greco, are immaculate in their precision and quality of movement. They dance together as if to a shared heartbeat. Their melding of bodies and minds is clear – though exactly what they want to express is up to us to imagine. While I was ready for the end when it came, I would eagerly see it again if there was time." Jill Sykes - The Sydney Morning Herald

"The dancers display an enormous range of movement possibilities, from sweeping patterns using the entire body to tiny inflections of the head or hand, individual virtuosity bowing to a common goal. It’s a remarkable work.”Barry Lenny – Rip It Up (Adelaide)