Irene Russolillo was born in Italy in 1982. Since 2013 she creates performances as both maker and dancer. In her hybrid works she uses movement, singing and writing to make warm, emotional, pieces where music has always a big presence. Now she is part of the choreographers VAN, cultural association based in Bologna. As a dancer she works since 2007, among others, with choreographers such as Micha Van Hoecke, Abbondanza/Bertoni, Erdem Gunduz, Lisi Estaras and for a long period with Roberto Castello, co-founder of Sosta Palmizi. Her nomadic studies allowed her to have a number of important encounters; with Gabriella Musacchio, Marina Van Hoecke and Yoko Wakabayashi in ballet, with coreographers such as Ivan Wolfe, Susanne Linke, Raffaella Giordano, Giorgio Rossi, David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert in contemporary dance, with César Brie and his physical theatre, Javier Cura and his contact-tango, Adi Sha’al, Ivan Wolfe and many others in contact-improvisation. She studied singing and vocal research with many teachers among which Sainkho Namtchylak. She teaches, leading intensive workshops and classes.
Dov'è più profondo (Where it is deeper) is a show made of body, sound and images, the result of a creative process in which practitioners of traditional singing and oral forms of the host territories, were invited to share their own musical and cultural heritage. Their voices have been recorded, thus implementing the repertoire of choirs and spontaneous singers found in rare archives and collections of Puglia, Piemontd and Valle d'Aosta.
In Dov'è più profondo overlapping narratives coexist, songs stripped of a single provenance and thoughts on identities and traditions released from the ideal of purity, to leave room for the imperfection of mixing. They are traces of present and past people, inhabitants of distant places, united by the time of effort and work, sociality and the relationship with nature and history.
Project, choreography and performance Irene Russolillo
Sound creation and performance Edoardo Sansonne|Kawabate
Dramaturgy Assistant Irene Pipicelli
Lighting design and technical direction Valeria Foti
Costumes Vanessa Mantellassi
ARMENIA - YEREVAN - 19 NOVEMBRE 2022