ADI.IRE

Adi Rozen and Irene Valesano are artists and performers from Israel and Italy.

Adi has a degree in dance theatre and education with a teaching diploma from Seminar Hakibutzim College in Tel Aviv. During her studies, she created and performed the solo ‘Adina’ at the dance festival ‘Intimadance’ ICON edition in Tel Aviv.

Irene has a multidisciplinary background. After a degree in CTF, she began her studies in Contemporary Dance with Paolo Benedetti, working as his assistant in 2018. She later collaborated with Claudia Passero in Incongruo Dance Company. She has trained in non-academic settings, participating in numerous workshops around the world.

In 2020, both took part in the two-year contemporary dance programme, Performact in Torre Vedras, Portugal, where they collaborated with internationally renowned choreographers and began to develop personal projects.

They work as freelancers and teachers, collaborating with different artists and choreographers

Adi, in 2022, participated in a collaborative residency with movement and visual artists at the ‘Binyamin Gallery’ in Tel Aviv, culminating in a performance with visual artist Dror Hibsh. In 2024 she danced in ‘Synchronised Swimming’ by Avia Ganor,a performance presented during the ‘ASIF’ festival at the Kelim Center in Bat-Yam, Israel.

Irene has collaborated in several projects in Portugal and Italy. In 2023, she presented the duo ‘Aggomitolamelo’ in Cologne, during the SoloDuo festival, winning the New Comers and Audience award. Recently she collaborated as a dancer with Shared Levitation in the piece REALITY CHECK.

In collaboration with the associations Parco Culturale Alta Langa and Amigara She is a Co-founder of MU.danceworkshop whose first edition took place last July in Monesiglio (CN) .

Since 2023, Irene and Adi have been pursuing their artistic collaboration, exploring movement and theatre in new and innovative ways. The result of this union is the dance-theatre duo ‘DIGITAL GAZE’.

As creators, they are both looking to give voice to social issues and explore social and physiological behaviors through movement.

They are interested in people, their complexity as humans, their interpersonal relationships, and their search for identity.

Their work is highly visually driven and often inspired by visual art.

They use the body, humor, visual imagery, and technology to create thought-provoking and stimulating dance experiences.

In Their movement language, they look to escape from the conventional shape of the body and search for new ways for the body to be perceived.

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