On July 10 and 11, Space for Dance Art opens its doors for an intense evening: the Rhino Dance Marathon. A moving journey of dance, image, text, sound, and memory — built on three decades of dance practice by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.

You’ll wander through seven spaces where past and present works intertwine. Thirty markers from their oeuvre reappear — not as a retrospective, but as active traces: video fragments, worn costumes, meaningful objects, and texts that address the body as a site of memory. Among them, short performances, installations, and interventions by new makers emerge, resonating with the DNA of ICK.

And the Rhino? It travels along. The rhinoceros is both powerful and vulnerable. It embodies a body in motion, slow yet persistent, moving against the current. In the site-specific performance Addio alla Fine (Holland Festival 2012), a rhinoceros appears in a rowboat, drifting on water — an image referencing Fellini’s film E la Nave Va, in which a cruise ship full of cultural elites slowly sinks. Only the Rhino remains, transferred into a lifeboat drifting toward an unknown future. Not as a remnant, but as an omen.

The Rhino Dance Marathon is not a performance, but a movement. Step into it.
The line-up of performers and guest artists will be announced soon.
 
photo © Rene Mesman