Performance
WE-CYCLE
Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten

WE, the EYES

The audience can expect an intense experience: the performance is like a high mass full of singing and rituals.
— Theaterkrant

In WE, the EYES, the survivors after a devastating fire are searching for true life, for connection with their instincts, intuition and with each other. The group makes its way from total darkness to the light, to new forms of existence, life and identity. Somewhere there seems to be fire. How can they play lustily with the fire again without burning up? How do they balance between fatalism and hope, between end times and future, between burning down and building up, between breath and breathlessness?

A dominating screen in the shape of a sphere oracles seven times with frenzied images between reality and fiction. Is it a deluded medium or seer, an educator or demagogue, a liar or philosopher? Ten performers burn loose, beat the drum, shout it out, throw mud, stoke the fire, dance the souls out of their bodies. In short, the playground as a force field for learning to look, to see and not to see. A sanctuary to deplore, accept to tilt glances and change perspectives.

In WE, the EYES depicts a micro-society that emerges out of nowhere at a given moment and brings bodies together in the here and now. How can we be fellow human beings now? What forms of empathy are possible? What will we discover together when we are “WE”. What will our identity then consist of? To the music and sound of rock, bodysound, electronic, experimental and classical music, the performers break through to a new world, fuelled by vocals, beats and rhythms of percussion. The bodies are mass and individual, guilt and innocence.

WE, the EYES aims to question perspectives in a society in crisis and claims change. After WE, the BREATH, it is the second performance in the WE-Cycle. ICK is convinced that we are going to experience profound changes in the time to come. But we are currently blind to its deeper dimension. That inhibits us. The WE projects give a stage to the journey, which we are taking together as humanity.

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An important life mission embodied in beautiful immersive theatre.
— De Volkskrant
Credits
Concept and choreography Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten
Performers (World premiere) Denis Bruno, Dennis van Herpen, Victor Swank, Hiroki Nunogaki, Sixtine Biro, Jordaine Lincoln and Giacomo de Luca
Performers (National premiere) Denis Bruno, Dennis van Herpen, Victor Swank, Hiroki Nunogaki, Jordaine Lincoln en Maria Riba and Claire Campbell (ICK-Next)
Performers (National tour) Denis Bruno, Dennis van Herpen, Hiroki Nunogaki, Jordaine Lincoln en Sixtine Biron, Claire Campbell (ICK-Next) and Ema Rodrigo Dias (ICK-Next)
Percussion Agostinho Sequeira & Dániel Bolba (reserve Francisco Guerreiro)
Vocals Pink Oculus
Video Ruben van Leer
Sound design Salvador Breed
Light Israel Del Barco and Henk Danner
Costume Clifford Portier
Rehearsal director Jesus de Vega and Dereck Cayla
Dramaturgy Florian Hellwig
Technical producer Israel Del Barco
Performers in the video Maxinie van Lishout, Helena Volkov, Sedrig Verwoert, Edward LIoyd and Suzan Tunca
With special thanks Hugo van der Veldt en Tom Haaima
Production ICK Dans Amsterdam
Co-production Le Manège, Scène National de Maubeuge (FR) and Ravenna Festival (IT)
World Premiere June 23, 2023 – Ravenna Festival (IT)
Dutch Premiere October 28, 2023 – Meervaart, Amsterdam (NL)
Photography Zani Casadio
Trailer Consorzio digITALIA