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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L.A.V.A. is a special collaboration between choreographers Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten (Amsterdam) and Roberto Zappal\u00e0 (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Premiere:<\/strong> Friday, July 3, 2026, 9pm 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roberto Zappal\u00e0 established his Compagnia Zappal\u00e0 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cthe 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?\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a03 & 5 juli – Meervaart, Amsterdam Op 3 juli 2026 presenteert ICK Dans Amsterdam de nieuwe voorstelling L.A.V.A. in theater Meervaart in Amsterdam. L.A.V.A. neemt de toeschouwer mee in een intens fysieke en sonische ervaring van frictie, spanning en ondergrondse stromen. Een wereld van vuur, as en uitbarsting In L.A.V.A. beweegt dans gelaagd als […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6695,11917,8843],"tags":[15397,16551],"class_list":["post-111539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dans","category-persberichten","category-podiumkunst","tag-ick-amsterdam","tag-pompee"],"views":4288,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100911,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/03\/de-kracht-van-pure-dans-ick-fest-2026-in-de-meervaart\/","url_meta":{"origin":111539,"position":0},"title":"The power of pure dance: ICK-Fest 2026 at De Meervaart","author":"een van onze leden","date":"13 March 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"28 maart 2026 - Meervaart, Amsterdam - Verleden, heden en toekomst in dans Op zaterdag 28 maart 2026 vindt in de\u00a0De Meervaart\u00a0de achtste editie van\u00a0ICK-Fest\u00a0plaats. 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Play dates: <\/strong>3 & 5 July 2026
Location:<\/strong> Meervaart Theatre Amsterdam
Avant Premi\u00e8re:<\/strong> 26 & 27 June 2026
Location:<\/strong> Teatro Grande, Pompeii, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\nAvant Premi\u00e8re Pompeii<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
At the foot of Mount Etna<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
On the ring of Amsterdam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Pieter C Scholten:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n