World premiere L.A.V.A.: ICK Dans Amsterdam & Compagnia Zappalà Danza during Julidans 2026

 3 & 5 July - Meervaart, Amsterdam

On 3 July 2026, ICK Dans Amsterdam presents the new performance L.A.V.A. at Meervaart theatre in Amsterdam. L.A.V.A. takes the audience into an intensely physical and sonic experience of friction, tension and underground currents.

A world of fire, ash and eruption

In L.A.V.A., dance moves layered like underground magma, unpredictable, shifting, colliding and potentially explosive. The sound is an autonomous energy of rhythmic tension and seismic vibration. The tension field shimmers with contrast and power.

A world of friction and connection

L.A.V.A. is a special collaboration between choreographers Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten (Amsterdam) and Roberto Zappalà (Sicily) who bring together their contrasting dance worlds. In the friction between their movement languages, a new intensity ignites: that of closeness and connection in embracing difference.

Practical information L.A.V.A.:

Premiere: Friday, July 3, 2026, 9pm
Play dates: 3 & 5 July 2026
Location: Meervaart Theatre Amsterdam

Avant Première: 26 & 27 June 2026
Location: Teatro Grande, Pompeii, Italy

Avant Première Pompeii

Prior to the Amsterdam premiere, a special avant premiere will take place in Pompeii on 26 & 27 June. At this historic site, once destroyed by Vesuvius, a special location version of L.A.V.A. will be presented.

At the foot of Mount Etna

Roberto Zappalà established his Compagnia Zappalà Danza in Catania, Sicily, in 1990. With his own physical, collective movement practice, captured under the name MoDem, acronym for Movimento Democratico, he puts the body at the centre as a living archive: shaped by daily movement, instinct and imperfection.

On the ring of Amsterdam

Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten founded ICK Dans Amsterdam in 2009 to bring together their movement material from not only performances but also method, research and transmission. Their starting point is the inherent knowledge of the body, which is curious, intuitive and contradictory.

Pieter C Scholten:

“the difference between dance practices, precisely the friction, as a place to dwell, is a fertile soil from which the body draws knowledge and also precisely employs its own knowledge to dwell therein. Can difference exist? Can we tolerate it without always striving for a solution in which everything comes together neatly?”