La Commedia

“In Emio Greco | PC's dancing circus, virtue and vice, heaven and hell, art and kitsch are craftily welded into a weapon of survival.” – Theaterkrant.nl, Moos van den Broek - January 2012
 
“The production is a culture-pessimistic reckoning that continues to reverberate a long time after. 'La Commedia' works like antivenom.” – Trouw, Sander Hiskemuller - January 2012

"An experience never to forget" - TM, Moos van den Broek - September 2011

“Monday is a crybaby, Tuesday a diva, et cetera. The Sunday (Emio Greco himself)  reprimands the schoolchildren, as strict as funny. The role of presenter works very well – you are hooked immediately”. – Groene Amsterdammer, Joost de Vries – June 2011
 
“The mission for the 8 splendid dancers of dance company Emio Greco PC, is that of inhabiting Kiefer's towers by means of humor, irony and levity, emerging by contrast the harshness of the tragic condition: sinners are dismissed, and so are the blessed one, remains the human. In that place, the muscular power, the physical force, the energy become the vehicle for an explosion of the ‘profound erotism of Dante’s poetry’” . - Il Manifesto, Francesca Pedroni – June 2011
 
“An artistic signature, that of La Commedia, that appears lighter in the surface and in the timber compared to the previous pieces, but that is actually not less potent in the underlying tragedy that resides in it”. - La Repubblica, Sara Chiappori – June 2011

In this new creation, the worldwide known choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten show their comical side. La Commedia ‘the best of’, presents the highlights of the Dante-cycle and stirs it up with a circus ring in which the dancers account for the 7 days of the week. So Monday is a melancholic who sits moping, Tuesday a diva and Saturday shines as ultimate party animal.
 
La Commedia shows the best of the four-part, inspired on Dante’s La Divina Commedia that won a variety of prizes in- and outside The Netherlands. Like HELL, winner of the VSCD-Zwaan for Most Impressive Dance Production in 2007 and Meilleur Spectacle de Danse 2006, and you PARA | DISO , nominated for the VSCD-Zwaan in 2011.
 
La Commedia is danced by the full company, under who Emio Greco and 2 nominees of the VSCD-Zwaan: Suzan Tunca (2007) and Victor Callens (2011). La Commedia had its première in June 2011 as a location project at the prestigious Hangar Bicocca in Milan.

World première – 23 June 2011, Hangar Bicocca, Milan (IT)
World première theatre performance– 16 September 2011, Torino Danza, Torino, IT
Dutch première theatre performance – 24 January 2011, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, NL