Publication of the handbook Double Skin / Double Mind - The Method

A guide to the intuitive body

ICK Dance Amsterdam proudly presents the publication of the handbook Double Skin / Double Mind - The Method, a new release that reveals the artistic core of the ICK signature practice. This practice, developed by choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, has been the beating heart of their work since the 1990s - a dance method that connects body, breath, emotion and intention in one fluid line of thought and movement.

The handbook allows dancers, teachers and researchers to delve into the basic principles, exercises and teaching strategies of DS/DM. It clarifies the artistic intention behind the movements and offers tools to further study, pass on and embed the practice in contemporary dance education.

The publication follows on from the earlier research project 

Capturing Intention: Documentation, Analysis and Notation Research based on the work of Emio Greco | PC  (ICK/AHK, 2007), edited by Scott deLahunta. Together, the two books form a diptych on the notation, documentation and transmission of choreographic work - and on the knowledge of dance as a living, thinking practice.

The text of the handbook is based on oral descriptions by Greco and Scholten, recorded in the DS/DM DVD-ROM (2007), and on documentation of conversations between them and former dancers during a DS/DM Teacher Training (2017), recorded by Suzan Tunca. The publication is enriched with colourful illustrations by ICK dancer Hiroki Nunogaki and original videos by Emio Greco, accessible for the first time via QR codes.

In addition, the book includes introductions by Marijke Hoogenboom (director Performing Arts & Film and head of Dossier Research, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) and Bertha Bermúdez Pascual (dance researcher and former dancer at Ballet Frankfurt and Emio Greco | PC, among others, and founder of the dance research culture at ICK).

Between body and time

DouPale Skin / Double Mind - The Method 

continues a line of artistic research in which ICK has been exploring the ‘becoming language’ of dance for years: from The 7 Necessities to the dance notation projects, from the salons on dance criticism to the movement labs in which dance knowledge is embodied again and again. The handbook forms a tangible bridge between physical experience and reflective articulation - between intuition and insight.

At an intimate dinner at ICK, the first copy of the book was presented to Bertha Bermúdez Pascual and Marijke Hoogenboom, on the occasion of Bermúdez's recent PhD at the University of Amsterdam on her thesis 

Dance Documentation as Network and the Preservation of El Chimbángueles (Venezuela) and Bii-Biyelgee (Mongolia).