ABOUT | Irene Fiordilino

BIOGRAPHY

Irene Fiordilino is a freelance Choreographer and Researcher based in London, she is also the Director of Scirocco Dance Theatre Company, co-founded in 2020 with Sound Designer Aidan Good.

Irene is a PhD student in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, where she previously graduated with Distinction (MFA Choreography, 2018). Irene is also Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and she works as a guest teacher and lecturer internationally.

Irene has presented her work at many international festivals and venues, such as: Breaking Walls Film Festival (2021, Cairo)London Screendance International (2021); We are Womxn (2021, US), Paesaggi del Corpo (2020, IT), 2020-Parallax 14 (UK), Nou Wave Gallery (2019, UK), FIND (2019, IT), Unit Motives: GRM Festival (2019, GR), ViDEOSKiN (2018, CA), Play Practice (2018, IN). She won several prises such as Premio Anghiari Dance Hub at Festival Presente Futuro (2019) and Premio Residanza 2018.

Along her choreographic practice and PhD studies she has been engaging in many academic activities, participating as a speaker at several international conferences, as well as co-curating a research symposium (Parallax 15, 2021, Trinity Laban) and the London International Screen Dance Festival (2021, Laban Theatre).

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice sits within the space between choreography and architecture: the intention is to creatively take inspiration from both disciplines, in order to produce interdisciplinary artworks where the relation between bodies and space is brought into focus through the presence of designed stage sets and of performers.

My most general concern with architecture regards its kinaesthetic affordances: that is how architecture triggers a process of embodiment and inhabitation of its constituting elements, leading the body to immerse into a pre-reflective cognitive and aesthetic experience of space, both inside and outside the physical boundaries of the architectonic enclosure.

My insight into the process as both a practitioner and a researcher has further fostered the elaboration of original theoretical claims which address the impact of my hybrid creative practice on the perception and cognition of space within framed aesthetic experiences, both from a participant and observer perspective.

To pursue my practice research I have designed an interdisciplinary methodology which integrates a theoretical and practical framework and which makes use of both pre-existing and original methods. I consider my methodology an independent output of my research, as I acknowledge and evaluate its inherent artistic traits.