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- if there is no sun
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003 → If There Is No Sun
contemporary dance Cracks open up in languages speaking of Africa and Europe, of body-territories, and of oppressive borders. Attempts are made to share dreams and desires, and a sense of estrangement. There is a desire to free oneself from one’s ghosts. On land, at sea, among other creatures, a new community emerges from its state of invisibility and embarks on a journey that is sometimes a discourse, sometimes a struggle.
The dialogue between vision, movement, and sound adapts and readjusts with each passage, like after an earthquake, when shattered certainties need to be rebuilt. With the words if – there – is – no – sun, those who preceded us and ignited other suns are evoked, imagining new possible humanities.
"Let us arrive in that place in the midst of our dreams, where all the lights are ours. Let our voice be our food. May our thoughts be muscular. Let us trudge through our sea."
- translated and reinterpreted excerpts, starting from Ladan Osman Refusing Eurydice (Exiles of Eden-Coffee House Press 2019)
CREDITS
Creation: Luca Brinchi, Karima DueG, Irene Russolillo
Sound: Edoardo Sansonne / Kawabate
Music: Kawabate, Drexciya, Karima DueG
Performance: Antoine Danfa, Karima DueG, Irene Russolillo, Mapathe Sakho, Ilyes Triki
Texts: Sun Ra, Ladan Osman, Felwine Sarr, Kgositsile, Karima DueG
Environment: Luca Brinchi
Movement: Irene Russolillo
Costumes: Marta Genovese
PRESS
«.. It is organically a concept-opera, it is a story made up of many universes, it is ... the Black Culture of an afrofuturism from post-industrial Detroit (the reference is to Drexciya), to its urban districts, to aquatic myths, amphibians (as the potential to be both one and the other, both one and the other, individual and community) and to techno, as a political glue that reworks everything... Languages and sounds shatter boundaries, the one in the many are the bodies of landings in a land made of sea and metaphors of going in this superb and... overwhelmingly anarchic work. Great performance by the performers ...
Paolo Ruffini - Liminateatri
«..A work sustained by a driving sonic fabric that weaves texts, singing, and movement with a happily non-trivial rhythm: the desire for redemption, the still-alive prejudices about being black, derision, the absence of freedom, the spiritual struggle emerge in the words, but above all in the corrosive work on the bodies. We see them ... powerful in the dynamic, proactive scratch of the body, driven by Brinchi's videos and the pulsating colorful lights ...
Francesca Pedroni - Il Manifesto
«.. A new and very precise idea of the world, where one can listen while following a general flow and at the same time can respect and value the different artistic, social, and political peculiarities ...
Sonia Remoli - Teorateatro.com
PRODUCTION
Ideated within the framework of CRISOL – creative processes
A project of internationalization of creative processes funded under the Boarding Pass Plus 2019 program promoted by MiBACT, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.
Production: Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, 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 – Compagnie 5ème Dimension, Dakar MADA Théâtre, Tataouine – PARC Performing Arts Research Centre, Florence. In collaboration with: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dakar, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tunisi.
CRISOL – creative processes is realized by a network of Italian and foreign organizations. The 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).
TOUR
21.11.2023 Maison Douta Seck, Dakar (SN)
20.11.2023 Maison Douta Seck, Dakar (SN)
27.10.2023 Teatro dell’unione, Viterbo (IT)
25.10.2023 Spazio Rossellini, Roma (IT)
21.09.2022 Teatro India, Roma (IT)
20.09.2022 Teatro India, Roma (IT)
15.09.2022 Città 100 Scale Festival, Potenza (IT)
11.09.2022 Fabbrica Europa, Firenze (IT)
10.09.2022 Fabbrica Europa, Firenze (IT)
08.09.2022 Festival Danza Urbana, Bologna (IT)
07.09.2022 Festival Danza Urbana, Bologna (IT)
05.09.2022 Blow Up Festival, Giovinazzo (IT)
03.09.2022 Orienteoccidente, Rovereto (IT)
01.09.2022 Armonie d’Arte Festival, Soverato (IT)
05.07.2022 Fuoriprogramma, Teatro India, Roma (IT)
06.07.2022 Fuoriprogramma, Teatro India, Roma (IT)