The Italian Emio Greco danced in various pieces by Jan Fabre and cooperated with Japanese choreographer Sabura Teshigawara in different productions, while the Dutch Pieter C. Scholten studied dramatic arts and originally directed theatre productions and cooperated with numerous choreographers and dance dramaturges. Their joint quest for the new dancing forms started in 1995 and the manifesto, that setted out 7 principles of dance and their impact on the body and the spectator, was written. They founded International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICKamsterdam) in 2009 as a platform for contemporary dance that encompasses workshops, production, research platform and the dance group itself, with the goal to evolve the talents available and to improve the share of knowledge, to get a better insight into the reflections of dance and research work involved, both to innovate and to cooperate.
Many of their works, such as the trilogy “Fra Cervello e Movimento” (Between the brain and movement), operas “Orpheus and Euridice” and “The Assassin Tree”, the plays “Theorem” by Pier Paolo Pasolini or the trilogy inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, have travelled the world and attained international acknowledgement by critics and audience alike.
The Festival’s audience will see two short ballet numbers titled One & Two, in which choreographers, directors and performers Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten question and explore the utopia of synchronicity. In the One, the dancer Emio Greco is confronted by the mesmerizing music of Ravel’s Bolero. Resisting and responding to the compelling pattern imposed by the music he explores the boundaries of the dancing body. The Two presents different aspects of duality and the occurrence of opposition and correspondence. It is a duet in which the dancers delve into the consequences of two people sharing the same space. For their performance, the artists have been awarded with the Time Out Live award in London and the Herald Angel Awards in Edinburgh, while one London critic established that such compelling artists are rare and that “One & Two” is so powerful that it draws in the audience into its world of drastic beauty. 
There is no doubt that the Festival’s audience will be equally strong influenced and impressed by this performance.