12 oCtober, 7.30 PM

Orbita | Spellbound 
Irene Russolillo

Fàtico (Phatic)

project, choreography, vocal writing, performance Irene Russolillo
sound creation, vocal writing, performance Edoardo Sansonne/Kawabate
lighting design, technical direction Valeria Foti
costume creation Marta Genovese
vocal dramaturgy  collaboration and coaching Patrizia Rotonda
text  Ladan Osman, Adam Zagajewski, Annamaria Ortese, David Thoreau, Irene Russolillo
production ORBITA|Spellbound – National Centre for the Production of Dance, Rome with the support for creative residencies by  Cango – Centro di Rilevante Interesse per la Danza Virgilio Sieni and Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto,
with support from TRAC – Teatri di residenza artistica contemporanea in Puglia and valuable collaboration with  SPINTIME labs .

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Fàtico is a choreographic and musical project in which singing and dancing beat the tempo of three prayers. On stage two performers equipped with a microphone in direct contact with the skin, an extension of the body, trigger point of the quasi-physical relationship with the spectators, thanks to the instrument provided by the vocal act. Here, singing is not an act of spontaneity, but the product of a modification, integration and strengthening of the encyclopaedia of this corporeity. In the words that mark the time of the choreography, the references to nature and the senses leave room for memories in their mental space before dissolving into the words of worship. Proceeding by connections and collisions between sonic and coreutic matter, a secular discourse on sacredness is composed, asking the audience to let themselves be guided: the phatic listens! 

From the director’s notes: “This show is a song, the voice that persists. The refrain murmured in the field when your hands are still dirty from working. Fàtico isn’t just time passing, it’s medicine. The potion that exalts and condemns life. To reinvent lineage and legitimacy. Because there was one step missing. Fàtico is a rope, a prosthesis, an act, that power that cannot be exploited. That distance in which we never touched each other, but almost”.

Irene Russolillo is a dancer, vocalist, performer and choreographer. 

vocalist, performer and choreographer. Her path is characterised by a hybrid and transdisciplinary approach to the stage. She creates solo projects or in collaboration with visual, musical and dance artists, in Italy and internationally. She is an associate artist of ORBITA|Spellbound National Centre for the Production of Dance in Rome, the city in which she is based. 

The Spellbound Association, founded in 1994, was created to host projects that organise and produce live shows specialising in the dance sector on an international scale.