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As with the previous two dance productions inspired by Dante's trilogy, HELL and [purgatorio], dance company Emio Greco | PC has created a companion magazine. This third and latest glossy is linked to the performance you PARA | DISO.

The magazine you PARA | DISO breaks away from well-established expectations about paradise. For instance, the presumed multi-coloured aspect of it is traded in for black and white. Work by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu takes up a prominent position. Takamatsu creates a black-and-white world of comic-book-like characters, which seem to move in a different dimension.

Besides, in order to throw light on as many facets of paradise as possible, guest authors from different disciplines were approached with the question: what is you(r) paradiso? The visions of astronomer Govert Schilling, composer Louis Andriessen, film maker Gus Van Sant and designer Marcel Wanders, among others, were incorporated into the ten-part structure. The result is a magazine that may be described as "a guide to paradise in ten parts".

The condensed glossies which accompanied HELL and [purgatorio] have been replaced in you PARA | DISO by a linear narrative in ten parts, in which the voices of the makers and the dancers are clearly represented. This brings out clearly the visual and textual links to the performance, whilst the magazine still remains an autonomous entity.

Published by ICKamsterdam in close cooperation with art director and artist, Isabelle Vigier.
Available in Dutch, English and French. ISBN 978-90-810813-5-1