A travel to Africa postponed due to the pandemic. Five artists between Italy and Senegal who began by sharing practices online to get to know each other, albeit remotely.
And finally the departure and the encounter with new bodies and landscapes. Dakar, its geometries, its dazzling light. Rap meets contemporary dance; the fluidity of movement meets rigid postures. If there is no sun speaks of community and is a project signed by choreographer and dancer Irene Russolillo and by video-artist Luca Brinchi, created in 2020 within the framework of CRISOL – creative processes, a project financed by the Boarding Pass Plus programme of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
If there is no sun is an imagined community, which fulfils the need to voice controversial issues: speaking of Africa and Europe, with different bodies, different postures, different languages. Holding it all together is sometimes a journey, sometimes a discourse, sometimes a struggle.
The first time I saw Irene Russolillo, I was fascinated by her biting, exuberant, somewhat instinctive dance.
