Many people who are non-European, non-Western, and non-wealthy cannot decide whether to move, where to go, or whether to leave or return to their homeland at wi/1, as I can. They cannot pursue their aspirations tor change, whatever that may be, or tor cultura/ growth, whatever they wish it to be as I can. The inability to move treely is a clear and pressing issue. Even it a performance can do nothing and does nothing against migration policies, through this work I wish to celebrate any effort that tosters collective progress and movement toward a broader hope.
Irene Russolillo
Fatigue is a vocal and physical choral performance about the act of going forward, in a path that evokes both a climb and a procession. A plural body is engaged in a movement of physical and spiritual fatigue, where breathing and singing constitute the point of origin of the choreography.
The metaphor of the ascent is usually employed to transmit the idea of accomplishing something, getting somewhere or even conquering new spaces. But what if there’s no peak to reach and this hyper-effort takes piace on a horizontal level?
Fatigue choreographs bodies and voices engaged in keeping balance and stability even when forced off-axis or carrying extra-ordinary loads. This continuous matter of vocal and physical tension produces the constant reconstruction of the presence of this multi-headed body. This space can be a time of both struggle and mutuai care, creating a common shelter and its subsequent dissolution, before the path continues beyond the spectators’ view.
