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Choreography, direction: Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten Lighting, set and sound concept: Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten Dance: Andy deNys and Emio Greco Lighting design: Henk Danner Costume design: Clifford Portier Realization of sound collage: Wim Selles Extra Dry is the third of a series called Fra Cervello e Movimento. Fra Cervello e Movimento is a set of three performances ' Bianco, Rosso, Extra Dry that investigate the dyad brain (cervello) and movement (movimento); a mind that wishes to control and a body that is curious for new sensations. The motive is the interest towards the reactions that inner impulses impose on the body. How can the body surpass its limitations? How open can it be in its responses and what kind of transformations can it take on? In the energetic dance performance Extra Dry a dancer is joined by his double. His universe is invaded; the two bodies cross invisible boundaries, moving from the explosive to the exploratory in the search for oneness. The perfectly controlling mind, subjecting the body to the will of the dancer is confronted by the body’s resistance to obey. A philosophical approach on Emio Greco | PC’s Trilogy”¨”¨In 2001 Emio Greco | PC collaborated with Flemish philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche to produce the essay It’s life Jim, but not as we know it, in which he examines the various motifs and motivations of the trilogy Fra Cervello e Movimento. ”¨”¨”In the trilogy there is more at stake than the overt friction between mind and body: it embodies likewise the tension between order and disorder, control and chaos, conscious intention and unconscious desire. As such it is a statement on the essence of dance. It not only shows the tension between choreographic design and vicissitudes (constant changes, constant alternation, unpredictable changes or variations, shifting circumstances) of performance, but it also shows that, as soon as dance speaks the language of the body, its transparency is untenable and a thing of the past: it becomes visceral, instinctive, obstinate and unmastered.””¨”¨ Author: Antoon Van den Braembussche (Quelle: http://dance-tech.tv/videos/extradry/) egd