In 1996 Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten wrote their artistic manifest Les sept nécessités. This ‘dogma’, of which the articles are stated in French - “because Il faut que… so much more strongly expresses necessity”, is an attempt to capture dance in words. In the manifest they laid the basis for a dance language that goes back to the inner necessities of the dancing body, an inner awareness of time and space that is stored in the deep memory of the body. Today, the manifest has not been diminished in currency or relevance and it still serves as a source of inspiration for the continuous development and deepening understanding of the work.
