WORLD PREMIERE
ASSOCIATE ARTIST
CO-PRODUCTION WITH ORIENTE OCCIDENTE
As an associate artist with the Oriente Occidente Festival for the 2017-2018 biennium, Irene Russolillo has had several opportunities to showcase her talent as a powerful performer and sharp choreographer. After her solo piece A Loan, based on Shakespeare’s sonnets and presented at the 2015 festival, she returned in the last edition as the magnetic lead in The Speech, another solo piece co-created with Argentine choreographer Lisi Estaras of Ballets C de la B. Russolillo also introduced audiences to the first creative phase of her new Wave Project, which debuts this year in a stage adaptation titled This is Your Skin.
In this project, for the first time in her career, the Puglian choreographer moves beyond the solo format to collaborate with two other performers, creating a “choreographed concert.” In This is Your Skin, the choreography interacts with songs performed live by the dancers. The original score, composed by Russolillo's trusted collaborator Spartaco Cortesi, who also co-authored the text, is atmospheric and fluid, lending itself to a rhythmic play intertwined with vocal performance. The choreography and the text, inherently connected, take shape around three bodies on stage, moving toward one another in a constant drive toward closeness.
Like an animated film interspersed with flashes of reality, This is Your Skin speaks through its excesses, its exclamations, and gestures that skirt the boundaries of choreographic articulation, avoiding a conventional narrative structure. Emotion is the core of Russolillo's choreographic vision, driving her to craft movements and gestures that create a purely musical and energetic space-time, aiming directly at the spectator’s heart.
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