The choreographer Irene Russolillo and the videoartist Luca Brinchi  are in Dakar, along with the musician and performer Karima 2G and the dancers Antoine Danfa and Mapate Sakho (Senegal) and Ilyes Triki (Tunisia), for a residency during which they will continue the work on the choreographic and video work If there is no Sun.

This project was born in 2020 as part of CRISOL – creative processes, a project designed by a network of Italian and international organisations and created to promote opportunities of meeting and co-creation between Italian and international artists.
The research of Russolillo and Brinchi, together with Danfa, Sakho and Triki, has started from the concept of “community”, meant as a “set of people united by ties of belonging or who share the same behaviors and interests, as a “community” but also as “family”, “friendship”, “ritual”, “landscape”.

If there is no sun is a creation in which notions and intuitions related to the places and people who are part of this journey interact, letting the observation point shift constantly. By untying the knots of distance, the authors imagine the birth of a new community that dance and video creation want to tell.

On Tuesday 19 April (from 7.30 pm) the six artists will present to the public, at the Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor, the results of this stage of creation.

creation: Luca Brinchi, Karima 2G, Irene Russolillo
performance: Luca Brinchi, Antoine Danfa, Karima 2G, Irene Russolillo, Mapate Sakho, Ilyes Triki
live music: Karima 2G
light design: Luca Brinchi, Daniele Davino
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).