Emio Greco

Emio Greco | PC: ROCCO

“Boxing is dancing, a duel is a duet.”
NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands

Choose a ringside seat for this intensely physical dance event set in a stylized boxing ring, and the sweat produced by this remarkable Amsterdam-based company may become part of the experience. In ROCCO, choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten put dancers face to face in a suite of choreographed bouts that are exhilarating, exhausting and deeply poignant—with a healthy dose of humor as counterpoint. With virtuosic performances, and plenty of nimble footwork, the competitors represent brotherly love with intense abandon: both the good and the bad, from Cain and Abel to Romulus and Remus to Laurel and Hardy. As in the film that inspired it, Luchino Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers), the artists expose both physical and psychological extremes in this powerful work that received Holland’s prestigious SWAN Award for Best Dance Production of 2012.

Funded in part with generous support from The Maurer Family Foundation.

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Date/Time G ST CA
THU 4/17
8:30 pm
$20 $16 $10
FRI 4/18
8:30 pm
$20 $16 $10
SAT 4/19
8:30 pm
$25 $20 $12

G - General Audience

M - REDCAT Members

ST - Students

CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff