The show FÀTICO will be presented in its world premiere on the upcoming 18th of February, by ORBITA|Spellbound in collaboration with Festival Equilibrio, at the Teatro Palladium in Rome.
FÀTICO is a choreographic and musical project in which singing and dancing mark the time of three prayers. On stage are two performers, equipped with a microphone in contact with the skin, an extension of the body, a trigger point for the almost-physical relationship with the audience, thanks to the instrument provided by vocal action.
Here, singing is not an act of spontaneity, but the product of modification, integration, and enhancement of the encyclopedia of this corporeality. In the words that mark the timing of the choreography, references to nature and the senses give space to memories in their mental space before melting into the words of worship. Progressing through connections and collisions between sonic and choreutic matters, a secular discourse on sanctity is composed, asking the audience to let themselves be directed by the fàtico listen!
It doesn’t come from nothing, it’s the peak reached after a long climb.
The sight of the stars now that you know how to look. This show is a song, the voice that persists.
The chorus murmured in the field when your hands are still dirty from working.
Fàtico is not just time passing, it’s medicine.
The potion that exalts and condemns life.
To reinvent descent and legitimacy. Because a step was missing.
Fàtico is a rope, a prosthesis, an act, that power that cannot be exploited.
That distance where we have never touched, but almost.
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Project, choreography, vocal writing, and performance Irene Russolillo
Sound creation, vocal writing, and performance Edoardo Sansonne/Kawabate
Lighting design and technical direction Valeria Foti
Costume creation Marta Genovese
Pattern maker Sandra Barlocci
Collaboration on vocal dramaturgy and vocal coaching Patrizia Rotonda
Texts by Ladan Osman, Adam Zagajewski, Annamaria Ortese, David Thoreau, Irene Russolillo
Production by ORBITA|Spellbound – National Dance Production Center of Rome
Support for creative residencies by Cango – Centre of Relevant Interest for Dance Virgilio Sieni, National Dance Foundation Aterballetto/National Choreographic Center
with the support of TRAC – Theatres of Contemporary Artistic Residency in Puglia and in collaboration with SPINTIME labs
Duration 45′
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IRENE RUSSOLILLO
Irene Russolillo is a dancer, vocalist, performer, and choreographer. Her journey is characterized by a hybrid and transdisciplinary approach to the stage. She creates solo projects or collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and dancers, both in Italy and internationally. She is an associated artist of ORBITA|Spellbound, the national dance production center in Rome, where she is based. Her latest creations in 2022 include “Dov’è più profondo,” created in collaboration with producer and composer Edoardo Sansonne and researcher and curator Irene Pipicelli, which debuted at the T*Danse Festival in Aosta, and “If there is no sun,” co-authored with video artist and director Luca Brinchi and musician and performer Karima DueG, which premiered at the Teatro India in Rome. Since 2014, she has received numerous awards: Equilibrio Best Performer Award, Masdanza Best Performer Award, Virginia Reiter Best Actress Under 35 Award (nomination), Prospettiva Danza Award; she was selected as an artist for “Le promesse dell’arte” at the IIC in Paris, CROSS Award, and the “Bando Abitante” selection by Virgilio Sieni Danza. She was an associated artist of the Oriente Occidente Dance festival, selected by the Crisol and Crossing the Sea networks, and collaborated with GRIOT for the production “Mirrors” as part of Italia Culture Africa 2019. As a dancer, she worked for many years with Roberto Castello and collaborated with Lisi Estaras, Abbondanza-Bertoni, and many other choreographers. Her nomadic training has allowed her to have important encounters with educators throughout Italy and Europe. Among them, the pivotal early encounters for her career were with Gabriella Musacchio for classical dance, Ivan Wolfe and his movement research, and the Ensemble of Micha Van Hoecke, where she gained her first professional experiences. Later on, she trained with Italian masters such as Sosta Palmizi and instructors like David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert, Company Blu for improvisation, Julyen Hamilton, and many others. Her background also includes a degree in Political Science and the French diploma for teaching contemporary dance.
