Retrieved from 18 September 2025 presents ICK Dance Amsterdam together with 12 international partners PREMIERE LIVE in Coliseu do Porto, in Portugal. The event marks the conclusion of the three-year European research project PREMIERE (2022-2025), supported by Horizon Europe. With a budget of €3.9 million, artists, scientists and technologists from six countries explored how XR, VR and AI can reshape the performing arts - from creation and training to live streaming and archiving.
As an international company and knowledge centre, ICK played an active role in this partnership. From the ICK Academy the company explored how the language of the body connects with digital technologies, and how these new forms can become accessible to artists, students and audiences worldwide.
The joint research yielded tangible results:
- A 3D Virtual Theater, in which performances can be streamed, relived and analysed;
- AI models for multimodal analysis of dance and theatre archives
- A AI Toolbox which translates dance movements into generative sound and image worlds;
- Innovative forms of virtual knowledge transfer were tested, including with ICK's own Double Skin/Double Mind methodology - The basis of all of Emio Greco's performances | Pieter C. Scholten.
THE PROGRAMME OF 'PREMIERE LIVE IN PORTO'
Re-embodied Machine
A transdisciplinary performance by Instituto Stocos in which the body acts as an interface, driving music, light and images.
Intuition Machine
A interactive installation and performance of ICK Dance Amsterdam (Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten) with composer Frank Krawczyk. Part of WE, the LUST, in which dance is translated into generative sound and image worlds via AI and motion capture.
Virtual Theatre Experiment
Research by the Amsterdam School of the Arts and theatre maker Ulrike Quade, in which VR unlocks new dramaturgical forms.
PREMIERE Documentary & Archive Desk for Performing Arts
A documentary and innovative digital environment that keeps three years of research and development visible and accessible.
With PREMIERE ICK Dans Amsterdam shows how its artistic methodology, international cooperation and technological innovation contribute to the future of the performing arts. Dance thus takes on a new dimension: not only experienced on stage, but also in a virtual, interactive space accessible worldwide.
