"Known & to Know" brings together two generations of choreographers in one dynamic evening. "Queens" by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten sets the tone; the new work by Sedrig Verwoert, "The VOID," follows with its own tempo, energy, and vision.
Queens challenges with physical and musical disruption. Iconic musical pieces—Under Pressure, The Sound of Silence, Wuthering Heights, and the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute—are more than just the warm bath of a collective memory: they become forces that put the body under pressure.
Dancers move between control and outburst, precision and exaggeration. Seriousness is interspersed with irony. Virtuosity seduces, but also raises questions: when does perfection become a form of control? When does beauty turn into a straitjacket?
Queens bears the unmistakable signature of Greco and Scholten: the body thinks, tension breaks open the surface, and precisely there a laugh emerges—liberating or unmasking.
After that follows a new work by Sedrig Verwoert: The VOID for ICK-Next (ICK’s junior company). Verwoert approaches choreography as both research and ceremony. At the intersection of dance and visual art, movement in Verwoert’s work becomes an act that builds meaning through concentration and precision.
With the dancers functioning as a collective body, patterns emerge that slowly unfold and shift, as if the movement follows its own internal logic. The energy is clear, sometimes hypnotic, sometimes confrontational. The result is intense: a choreography that touches on ritual, togetherness, and trance. With this creation, ICK-Next becomes part of Verwoert’s broader practice, in which dance moves between the theater hall, museum space, and other live contexts.
Known & to Know will go on tour in the 2026–2027 season.
