Irene Russolillo Irene Russolillo is a dancer, vocalist, performer, and choreographer with a transdisciplinary approach to the stage. She creates solo projects or collaborates with visual, music, and dance artists in Italy and internationally. She is an associate artist of ORBITA|Spellbound, the national dance production center in Rome, the city where she is based. Her latest work is fàtico, a 2024 production that premiered in Rome as part of Festival Equilibrio/Vertigine, ORBITA's dance season. Among her recent works, in 2022, she created dove è più profondo, which premiered at the Festival T*Danse in Aosta, and If there is no sun, created with Luca Brinchi and Karima DueG, which premiered at Teatro India in Rome during Festival FuoriProgramma. Since 2014, she has received numerous awards, including the Premio Equilibrio, Premio Masdanza, Premio Prospettiva Danza, and the CROSS Award. She has been an associate artist of the Oriente Occidente Dance Festival, a selected artist in the Crisol and Crossing the Sea networks, and collaborated with GRIOT for the production Mirrors within the Italy Culture Africa 2019 program. As a dancer, she worked for many years with Roberto Castello and has also collaborated with Lisi Estaras, Abbondanza-Bertoni, and several other choreographers. Her nomadic training has allowed her to meet important pedagogues in Italy and across Europe. Particularly crucial to her career were her early encounters with Gabriella Musacchio for ballet, Ivan Wolfe and his movement research, and Micha Van Hoecke’s Ensemble, with whom she had her first professional experiences. Later, she also trained with David Zambrano, Thomas Hauert, Julyen Hamilton, and many others. She studied Political Science in Naples and obtained a degree in contemporary dance teaching in Paris.