Introduction

After the internationally successful dance productions that Greco and Scholten created between 1996 and 2001, they shifted their perspective and that of their company, to opera, music and film. At the request of the Edinburgh International Festival they directed two operas: Orfeo ed Euridice and The Assassin Tree. Together with Dutch leading theatre company Toneelgroep Amsterdam, they staged Pier Paolo’s Pasolini’s Teorema. In 2004 a continuous project, Double Points: + , about dance, music and interactivity with contemporary Swiss composer Hanspeter Kyburz followed. These interdisciplinary excursions gave rise to the trilogy that is inspired by Dante’s La Divina Commedia. In 2006, the first part, the highly acclaimed dance production HELL premiered, in 2008 the second part [purgatorio] followed in the Holland Festival. The final part, you PARA | DISO, premiered in 2010. 

Emio Greco | PC has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, boasts widespread international recognition and has toured extensively in The Netherlands and all over the world.

Emio Greco | PC’s creations can roughly be divided into three categories. First of all there are the new creations. These performances still have to be premièred and their (inter)national tours will start after that. The category of repertoire contains every performance that the company has created since it started out. With some of these performances EG | PC still tours around the world. Double Points comprises the creations that originated in a research process. In many cases they are sketches, studies for a work to be developed further. It is also a method to enter into an artistic dialogue without the pressure of performances.