Media Coverage of Conversation with Choreographers Greco and Scholten

The conversation held on campus last February with choreographers Emio Grecoand Pieter C. Scholten about the relationship between their dance performance ROCCO and Luchino Visconti’s film Rocco and His Brothers has received much media attention.

Watch the video produced by i-Italy, which will be aired on TV in April (NYC TV on Channel 22 or 25 schedule)

Read the interview with Emio Greco by Teresa Fiore published on the i-Italy portal in English and on the Corriere del Mezzogiorno in an abridged version in Italian.

Read the article in La Voce di New York by Laura Caparrotti
See also the full set of information and photos about the event, which was the last of a three-part program.

Organized by the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies (Department of Spanish and Italian) and ACP, and moderated by Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair), the conversation titled Dancing a Film included the screening of clips from Visconti’s 1960 classic along with live demonstrations of scenes from ROCCO (presented by Peak Performances at the Kasser Theater) with ICKamsterdam dancers. It addressed such topics as: are boxing and dancing metaphors for life? In what sense do migrations produce a sense of displacement for the mind, body, and skin? How does the cross-pollination between dance and film provide a form to such displacement?