ICK Dans Amsterdam
ROCCO/ROCCA
Dance and boxing come together in the ring
Take your seat around the boxing ring where dancers become boxers — and boxers become dancers. In a flurry of jabs, footwork, and raw emotion, the performers challenge one another with exhausting rounds of precision, strength, and vulnerability. Power dynamics shift. Tensions rise. Every move counts.
ROCCO/ROCCA is inspired by Luchino Visconti’s Italian film Rocco e i suoi fratelli, a story about brotherhood and the fight for a better life. The performance breathes that same fierce love — between brothers or sisters — where good and evil, angel and devil, the androgynous and the forbidden collide. It’s a physical and emotional showdown, exploring the boiling bodies of boxer and dancer (M/F/X).
About ICK Dans Amsterdam
Choreographers Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten have been creating intense, physical dance performances since 1996, with the intuitive, questioning body at the center. A rebellious body — resisting imposed (dance) forms and becoming the measure of its own movement through time, space, and shape. This uncompromising approach has resulted in a distinctive movement vocabulary, defining the company’s entire body of work.
About ROCCO/ROCCA
Originally titled ROCCO, the production was awarded the Zwaan for Most Impressive Dance Production during the Dutch Dance Days in 2012. Since then, it has toured the world with more than 150 performances. Dancer Christian Guerematchi was nominated for Most Impressive Dance Performance. In 2015, ROCCA was presented by Ballet National de Marseille with an all-female cast. In 2022, the production returned to the Netherlands as ROCCO/ROCCA, in which gender no longer defines the ring. Men and women face each other as equals — physically, emotionally, and in their total surrender to both desire and combat.
The press on ROCCO/ROCCA
“A hypnotic trip, with a tension that rises until nothing else seems to exist but two physically and emotionally boiling bodies.” — de Volkskrant
A gripping performance where intensity, tenderness, and raw power come to life in every blow — and every step.