Study Days for Forget Diplomacy

Irene Russolillo is a dancer, vocalist, and choreographer with a nomadic and transdisciplinary approach to the stage. She develops personal projects and collaborations with artists from dance, visual arts, and music, in Italy and internationally. Since 2019, she has developed research projects that investigate the forms of voice and movement in relation to cultural erasure and social fragmentation, having had the opportunity and privilege to work—through residencies, collaborations, and research—in Italy, Armenia, and various African countries, particularly Senegal. Each project activates collaborative performative processes that question the relationship between cultural identity, historical memory, and the transformative potential of the performing arts, particularly in border territories and within minority cultural expressions. Her next project, *Forget Diplomacy*, will develop between Italy and Estonia, along one of the eastern borders of the European continent.

Edoardo Sansonne/Kawabate is a producer, singer, and composer of electronic music. He debuted in 2020 as Kawabate with *Epicentro*, on *Mutants Mixtape Vol. 2* alongside Arca and other international artists. His work spans composition, sound installations, video art, theater, and contemporary dance, investigating voice, landscape, and collective memory. He studied voice in Europe and the USA with Elise Witt, Oskar Boldre, Anita Daulne (Zap Mama), Nico Note, Rhiannon, and Margie Gillis, exploring harmonic singing with Alash Ensemble and Agnese Banti, and extreme vocal research with Miriam Granatello. His electronic training was guided by Alberto Ricca Bienoise and Spencer Doran (Visible Cloaks). He has collaborated with Karima 2G, Irene Russolillo, Elisa Sbaragli, Fabio Brusadin, Luca Brinchi, Daniele Spanò, and Mauro Pace. He took part in *If There Is No Sun* (Italy–Senegal), made his debut as a performer in *Fàtico* (2024), and worked on *Fatigue* and *Se domani*, at NID Platform 2024–2025.