as part of Fuori Programma – International Dance Festival

After some creative residencies in Senegal and Italy, If there is no Sun premieres in Rome, a work by the choreographer Irene Russolillo, the video artist Luca Brinchi and the musician Karima DueG together with the dancers Antoine Danfa and Mapate Sakho (Senegal) and Ilyes Triki (Tunisia).
The work has developed within the framework of CRISOL – creative processes, a project conceived by a network of Italian and international structures to promote opportunities for encounters and co-creation processes between Italian and international artists.

Fractures open up in languages when speaking about Africa and Europe, about bodies-territories and borders that oppress. We try to share dreams and desires. And a sense of strangeness. We would like to see our rights recognized and free ourselves from our ghosts. On land and sea, among other creatures, a new community emerges from its state of invisibility. And it embarks on a struggle that is a discourse and a journey, in which the environment changes due to corrosion and blurring.

«Go to the place between our dreams, where all the light is yours. Let your voice be food. May your thougths be muscular. Let us wade in our water».
Ladan Osman, Refusing Eurydice (Exiles of Eden-Coffee House Press 2019)

created by Luca Brinchi, Karima DueG, Irene Russolillo
performed by Antoine Danfa, Karima DueG, Irene Russolillo, Mapathe Sakho, Ilyes Triki
music: Drexciya, Kawabate, Karima DueG
textes: Sun Ra, Ladan Osman, Felwine Sarr, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Karima DueG
environment: Luca Brinchi
movement: Irene Russolillo
sound: Edoardo Sansonne / Kawabate
costumes: Marta Genovese
within CRISOL – creative processes, a project for the internationalization of creative processes supported by the programma Boarding Pass Plus 2019 programme promoted by MiBACT Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo
production: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa, Gruppo Nanou, Spellbound Associazione
with the support of Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Danza Urbana, Menhir Dance Company / Talos Festival – Ruvo di Puglia
residencies: Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor, Dakar; MADA Théâtre, Tataouine; PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, Firenze
in collaboration with Italian Cultural Institute Dakar, Italian Cultural Institute Tunis

CRISOL – creative processes is implemented by a network of Italian and international organisations. Italian partners are: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa – Florence (project leader), CapoTrave / Kilowatt – Sansepolcro, Danza Urbana – Bologna, LIS LAB Performing Arts / CROSS Festival – Verbania, Tersicorea / Med’Arte / Cortoindanza – Cagliari, Muxarte / ConFormazioni Festival – Palermo, Menhir – Ruvo di Puglia. The international partners involved in this section of the project are Cie 5ème Dimension – Dakar (Senegal) and MADA Théâtre – Tataouine (Tunisia).

[photo: Monia Pavoni]