research, exchange & dissemination

Since 2006 the Academy has developed and presented a broad variety of activities around the transfer of dance, including research, workshops, lectures, after talks, discourse, and artistic exchange with different national and international partners. Transfer of dance, in fact, is the kernel from which all current Academy activities, research, exchange and dissemination have evolved.
 
Central to the exchange activities is the development of new educational formats in which theory and praxis, transmission and creation can inform each other. The focus is on developing dance and the experiential knowledge of dance. Two different methods of operating have been developed. On the one hand there are the nomadic programmes that focus on the development of inspiring educational networks, with a special focus on the relationship between Europe and Asia (like Beyond) and on the other hand there are the programmes that follow up on the Company in the School format, in which the vision of the artists infiltrates in existing educational contexts (like the Double Skin/Double Mind Curriculum at the AHK, the Practical Dramaturgies at Operaestate in Bassano and the Creative Processes of Dance seminar at the University of Amsterdam).
 
All research projects that emerge within the Academy are firmly rooted in the praxis and philosophy of Emio Greco | PC’s artistic work. It is this link with the artists that frames the type of research questions addressed and research methods used within the projects. Currently, two research lines are defined within the Academy: Notation and Dance Dramaturgy. Under the main research line of Notation are ranked the three interrelated projects on new ways of documenting, notating and recreating dance:  Capturing Intention (2004­2007),  Inside Movement Knowledge (2008­2010) and the more recent project  Pre-choreographic elements (2009­2013). The latter focuses on questions around movement production and transmission within the creative process. Within the research line of Dance Dramaturgy, under development at this moment, questions on the relation between dance and music are addressed. Apart from all this, there is a broader network of research projects that in one way or the other are linked to the research pillar of the Academy (see external research).

Furthermore, it is a primary task of ICK to take great care that the knowledge that is acquired in the context of the exchange and research projects is dispersed throughout the international dance field and beyond, to be pondered by others, to be taken a step further. Forming functional networks around a specific topic, a publication, a research project, is done with great care. For ICK, finding the right partners for dissemination takes time. It is not merely a question of a temporary alliance, but of building a circle in which knowledge can circulate and then spiral out to other spheres.