New Production of ICKAmasterdam / Emio Greco | PC in France and Holland. Dance, sound and LED. An interpretation of the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Point of departure for the dance performance L'Étranger is the presence of a single dancer, the body of Emio Greco.  Like the anti-hero in Albert Camus' eponymous novel, he stands for freedom to choose his own path, but reality catches up with him. The dancing protagonist's room to move, closed in by three walls of lights, is gradually reduced to an inhuman size. The hundreds of LED lamps are his co-stars; they are 'talking heads' that can transfer the dance into projected images, fragments of texts and sound. One core question sums it all up: what does one man's revolt tell us about society as a whole?
 
PRESS ABOUT L'ÉTRANGER
"L'Étranger by Italian dancer Emio Greco, who represents the protagonist, is a pure concentration of originality and sensitivity, and of that indignation that is so characteristic of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. - La Marseillaise (November 12, 2013)
"A dance adaptation of L'Étranger seems a surprising challenge. But Emio Greco and particularly Pieter Scholten have lived up to it brilliantly. The multimedia scenography is prodigious." - Zibeline (November 14, 2013)
"Greco disrupts his movements to express the absurdity and incongruity of a human farce that he refuses to take part in." - La Provence (November 8, 2013)
CREDITS
premiere 6 novembre 2013, Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence (FR)
choreography Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
concept and scenography Pieter C. Scholten
dance Emio Greco
artistic team Paul Beumer, Henk Danner, Gleb Foulga, Krystian Lada, Clifford Portier, Sven Sölvik, Chris Ziegler
film Arno Dierickx
technicians Paul Beumer, David te Marvelde en Maarten Heijdra
production Charlotte Adrian
thanks to Dominique Bluzet, Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Martin Selze and Gerco de Vroeg
L´Étranger is a coproduction of Théâtre du Jeu de Paume (Aix-en-Provence, FR), International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICKamsterdam), Marseille-Provence 2013 Capitale européenne de la culture (Marseille, FR) and Théâtre de Liège (BE). L´Étranger is supported by Foundation AMMODO.