DS/DM The method

Do you want to learn the language and logic of your own body?

Double Skin/Double Mind (DS/DM) is the dance method of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. You discover the sensitivity of your body through the basic principles of Breathing, Jumping, Expanding and Reducing. You need the sensitivity for the possibilities that arise from your body when creating choreographic material. The method is therefore the basis of all performances by Greco and Scholten.
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"DS/DM is a way of preparing the body for dance that is inherent to your thinking and your imagination. It needs a connection with your own choices, also during the improvisation with other elements and choreographic materials. The experience creates a condition and an opening, it is not something fixed by rules that say: this is how you should dance. It is rather the opposite, you use it, and then you contrast it in an open field of intervention and manipulation".

- Emio Greco-

We offer the DS/DM method in master classes, training courses and workshops for professionals and amateurs. With the DS/DM method you achieve a new physical and mental awareness in which intention and form coincide. DS/DM also gives you insight into the artistic work of the choreographers.

Double Skin/Double Mind was created in 1997. Greco and Scholten were asked to give a workshop during the International Tanzwochen in Vienna. The request raised crucial questions. What is the essence of our work? What is a workshop? And: How do you transfer a dance language based on intuition to another?

The Double Skin/Double Mind method that came into being is now being taught worldwide, used as daily dance training and as preparation in creative processes. Transfer, the fifth principle of the workshop, offers room for reflection and for the transfer of the repertoire of Greco and Scholten. The method is essential in the transfer to our own dancers, in education, in the lessons to dance students and amateur dancers, and recently also to school children, and to managers and employees in the business world.

DS/DM is an important source for our research projects with national and international partners, such as Capturing Intention (2009), Inside Movement Knowledge (2010) and Choreographic Coding Labs (2017). The Sensorium Toolkit for Dance, a teaching method for children, launched in 2017, is also based on DS/DM.

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Dereck Cayla

Dereck Cayla is a French choreographer and dance teacher who lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2008 he graduated as a dancer from the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse in Paris. A year later he joined the dance ensemble of ICK. He has appeared in various performances by Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten, such as ROCCO, youPARA|DISO, and EXTREMALISM; and in works by ICK guest choreographers such as Nicole Beutler, and Robyn Orlin. This gave him the opportunity to discover a broad spectrum of contemporary dance.

In 2015 he will leave ICK's dance ensemble to focus on his work as a choreographer. He will remain associated with the company as a teacher Double Skin / Double Mind, the method of Greco and Scholten that is taught worldwide. With the support of ICK he made Mermaids, a duet for two male dancers that was performed during July dance and in September 2019 on the water of the Sloterplas.

Victor Callens

Born in France in 1989, Victor Callens studied at the National Conservatory in Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) where he graduated in 2007. He then performed with Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten at ICK Amsterdam for 6 years where he danced in most of the new creations and repertoire pieces. In 2011, he received a Swan nomination at the Nederlandse Dansdagen for the most impressive dance performance for his part in you PARA DISO.

Meanwhile, Victor worked on different projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Pierre Audi, Janine Jansen, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Arno Dierickx and Andrea Bozic. In 2014 he joins Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten in Marseille where he becomes a member of the Ballet National de Marseille (BNM) as a dancer and assistant. Working as a freelancer from 2017, Victor is now working with choreographers Eric Ming Cuong Castaing and Mavin Khoo beside carrying out his own projects.

Suzan Tunca

Suzan Tunca was born in 1975 in Rottweil, Germany, to a Turkish family. She studied Theatre Dance at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem (ArtEZ) between 1994 and 1997. After graduating, Suzan started working as a dancer, choreographer and choreographic assistant in the Netherlands and abroad. She worked with, among others, Krisztina de Châtel and Dylan Newcomb.

Between 2003 and 2007, Suzan began investing in a long term dialogue between the dancing body and the development of interactive music technology, transcribing motion into sound. During that time, she started dancing with Emio Greco | PC (now ICK Amsterdam). She was a dancer with the company from 2005 until 2013. In 2007 she received a nomination for a Swan for the most impressive dance performance in the Netherlands.

In 2015, she completed her artistic research at the University of Amsterdam, thereby obtaining her master’s degree. Since 2016 she has been a dance researcher at ICK Amsterdam. Between 2016-2019 she participated with DAS THIRD, the first 3^rd Cycle research group in the performing arts in the Netherlands at the Graduate School of Amsterdam University of the Arts. She implemented and develops an artistic research curriculum for the BA Dance students at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam and works as a coach for the MA Choreography Codarts/Fontys. Since 2019 she is PhD candidate at PhDArts Leiden University.

Through her work as a dance researcher in professional and educational contexts and as a performing artist, she aims to contribute to the continuous regeneration and advancement of dance as an autonomous art form and as an invaluable source for embodied knowledge and understanding.

Bàrbara Meneses Gutiérrez

Born in Barcelona, Barbara graduated in 1999 from P.A.R.T.S, in Brussels, and was a member of dance company Emio Greco | PC from 2000 till 2006. After leaving the company of Emio Greco she collaborated with choreographers such as Keren Levi, Hillary Blake Firestone, Pere Faura and Hooman Shariffi. In 2008 she re-connected with the work of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten as a dancer, rehearsal director and Double Skin/Double Mind teacher.

Barbara has also been a guest teacher at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and the Modern Theatre Dance (MTD) department of the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK) and from 2011 until 2020 she was the artistic coordinator of the Academy at ICK Dans Amsterdam.

She is currently living again in Barcelona where she is a guest teacher at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa.

Vincent Colomes

Vincent Colomès was born in Paris, France in 1975. He studied ballet from the age of 8 with Thérèse Jehannin at the Conservatoire Municipal de Tremblay. In 1995, he graduated from the ‘Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris’ with a specialization in Ballet.

After his studies he started his career joining ballet companies as Victor Ullate, Roland Petit. Then his curiosity brought him to join neoclassical/ contemporary repertoire companies as Introdans, Ballet Gulbenkian. Until he felt the necessity to dive further into one choreographic language which led him to meet the work of Emio Greco and Pieter C.Scholten by joining ICK Dans Amsterdam in 2006.

In 2007 he started to teach, transmitting Ballet and Double Skin Double Mind, the method created by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten. In 2013 he decided to pursue his career as independent and simultaneously started to intensively study Flamenco language. The encounter with this art form impulsed him to create choreographies. He is now articulating this three branches of his profession, dancer, choreographer, teacher.

Sawami Fukuoka

Sawami was born in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from Saga Art College in Kyoto, she was selected for a scholarship program at ImPulsTanz Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria in 2001.

In 2002, Sawami joined the Amsterdam-based dance company Emio Greco | PC (now ICK Amsterdam) and took part in most of their productions and repertoire up until 2013. With the company, she performed all over the globe. Sawami currently works as a freelancer.

Kelly Hirina

After 17 years of living and working in Amsterdam (NL), Kelly is now based in Ann Arbor, USA. She has completed her Double Skin/Double Mind teacher training in 2017 after four years of intensive training while working as a dancer with ICK Amsterdam.

Kelly received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Michigan in 1999 and is currently a graduate instructor there while working towards her Master’s degree in Dance. In 2000, a Fulbright scholarship took her to the Netherlands where she worked with many different choreographers such as; Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten, Krisztina de Châtel, Suzy Blok, and Dylan Newcomb, both as a freelancer and as a company member. Kelly also worked in mime/theater onstage with Jakop Ahlbom and Compagnietheater (Theu Boermans) and in films with makers such as Arno Dierickx and Noud Heerkens.

She looks forward to sharing DS/DM the method with the American dance community, bringing a fresh approach to the body and mind.

Nicola Monaco

Born in Italy, Nicola Monaco started training in contemporary dance and ballet at the age of nineteen. In 2001 he attended the professional course at Aterballetto, under the direction of Mauro Bigonzetti. At the end of his training he immediately joined the dance company Artemis Danza, directed by Monica Casadei, where he stayed for two seasons.

In 2003 Nicola joined ICK Amsterdam (still going by the name of Emio Greco/PC), where he would remain until 2009. He then moved to the UK, working for Akram Khan, Shobana Jeyasingh, Gregory Maquoma, Tom Dale and The Featherstonehaughs, directed by Lea Anderson.

In 2012, Nicola started a collaboration as a guest teacher at the dance department of the University of Malta and worked as a rehearsal director for the Mavin Khoo dance company. From 2016, he’s been appointed as rehearsal director for Zfin Malta Dance Ensemble and started a Master’s degree in Performing Arts (Dance) at the University of Malta.

Marie Sinnaeve

Marie Sinnaeve was born in 1984 in Amiens, France. She started ballet at a young age under Marie-José Delaunay at the Centre de Danse d’Amiens. From 2000 to 2005 she studied dance, anatomy, music and dance history at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP). She graduated with a degree in modern dance, as well as in modern letters.

In 2006 she came to EG | PC as a dancer, dancing with the company until 2010. From 2009, she also danced with Compagnie Le Guetteur under Luc Petton. She also worked for other companies, such as Cie&co, Compagnie du nouveau Jour, Mayemba company (hip hop) and Stefaniesnothere company (Israeli circus and dance), Le Gymnase CDC, etc.

Since 2013, Marie has been working as a dancer and choreographer for L’Embellie musculaire company. She is also involved in the pedagogic research and interventions. Since 2015 she has been working for Groupe Noces Danse Image, a dance and theater company, as a dancer and co-choreographer. In 2016 she graduated from the Metareflexology School of Lille and is a dance teacher for people with disabilities.

Helena Volkoc

Helena graduated from the Codarts Dance Academy in Rotterdam in 2004 and was an ICKamsterdam company member from 2013 to 2018. Before joining ICK, she was a lead dancer for many years with NND Galili Dance, with artistic director Itzik Galili and danced with Dansgroep Amsterdam under direction of Krisztina de Châtel and Itzik Galili. Helena currently studies in the MA Dance Therapy program in Rotterdam and teaches Double Skin/Double Mind for ICKamsterdam. See her portrait here.

Video: curriculum AHK

Video: Interactive installation

Contact

Suzan Tunca
Head Academy, Researcher Dance

suzan@ickamsterdam.nl

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