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After Hell, Ernio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten continue their route inside Dante’s Divine Comedy with Purgatorio, made up of two parts: Popopera and In Visione. The epilogue will be The Paradise. The New-Yorker composer Michael Gordon brings to their researches on relations between dance and music structural elements of rock music performed live by seven dancers (angels of the purgatory?), a guitarist and a classical singer, Michaela Riener. By abolishing the frontiers between the worlds of dance and music and by intercrossing bodies and sounds, Ernio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten propose a swarm of answers to this subtle question: how can a dancer appropriate music? In front of each dancer, equipped with an electric guitar, we have the feeling of facing the Hydra, the monstrous legendary animal with multiple faces, at the same time unique and plural. Popopera blends raw and refined and question the extreme virtuosity in order to reveal the intimate and underground relationships between arts, knowledge, writing and… guitar!

“The first moments of Popopera are superb, when an ephebe walks into two light rays, then towards the proscenium, and touches himself absolutely shamelessly. Even more magnificent when appears in solo the choreographer Ernio Greco, fascinating dancer using his thin and untied body with an absolute elegance and a rare sensuality. There is like a melancholy abandon in the work he’s performing.” Raphaël de Gubernatis - Le Nouvel Observateur