Shlomi Tuizer

The Italian, Edmond Russo, and the Israeli, Shlomi Tuizer, began their fruitful career as interpreters, in the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Lyon and the Batsheva Dance Company, respectively. Their paths crossed when they were both interpreters in France and Belgium, in the companies of Hervé Robbe and Joanne Leighton. They created short pieces separately before joining forces to set up Affari Esteri (from the Italian meaning foreign affairs) in 2004. Places of exchange and collaborations, their projects bring together artists from varying horizons and highlight the resonances between the individual and the group. They went on to produce work after work (including their latest creations: inside ##### in 2009, Lings in 2010, and the duo embrace, created in 2012), ending up with the most recent: Tempéraments. Alongside this, with creations such as Dolentem (2009) and Encircling (2011) for the interpreters of the dance school Coline in Istres, and Precious Things (2012) for the Junior Ballet of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Paris, they have furthered a choreographic approach placed at the edges of an artistic commitment and a pedagogical reflection. In 2013, they created Kammerkonzert for the Junior Ballet of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon.

That same year, the professional dance school Coline entrusted them with the artistic management of the choreographic research and creation laboratory, Mother Tongue, for thirteen dancers from the Mediterranean basin. A project that was thought up by Coline and co-produced by Marseille-Provence 2013, the European Capital of Culture. Consulted for their teaching skills, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer regularly visit a large number of dance instruction and practice establishments both in France and overseas.
The company Affari Esteri is in residency at the CDC Art Danse Dijon Bourgogne.