‘you|Paradiso’, the dance piece, was about the flesh and being mortal; a perfume was a means to stage the company’s vision into the immaterial realm.

Concept / art direction & design / project coordination.
Dance company EG|PC (ICK Amsterdam). In collaboration w/ Alessandro Gualtieri (perfume) Joost van Bleiswijk & Kiki van Eijck (bottle) Brown Cartonnages (packaging) René Mesman (photos).

Documentation: Working on scents with Alessandro Gualtieri  / The flacon will be a composite of a ready made elements with a hand made frame.

‘Risorgimento for Purgatorio’, a magazine/collectors publication released on the occasion of the premiére of (Risorgimento for) Purgatorion by dance company Emio Greco | PC. The publication and features essays by various thinkers, critics, novelists, a series of portraits of the performers, and a visual essay by myself. Dancers portraits in collaboration w/ Levi van Veluw. Concept, art direction, design.

First in a series of 3 publications that were to accompany the dance tryptic Hell / Purgatorio / Paradiso based on Dante’s trology, and made and performed by Emio greco | PC. The company’s ambition was to publish magazine like publications that would act as a research means in the making process of the choreographies, thus feeding the makers with content and imagery, and in turn become a window to the pieces for the audience.

Art direction, visual essay, editorial. Dancers portraits in collaboration w/ Victor + Monique Bergen Henegouwen