ABOUT
Giulia Vitiello is an Italian-born theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer, and researcher currently based between Brussels and London. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of collective memory, shared heritage(s), migration and representation through site-specific and socially engaged performance. Her work blends applied performance methodologies with choreography, dramaturgy, and design, often activating spaces, wether theatrical or not, as places of embodied history, co-creation and exchange.
Giulia Vitiello is an Italian-born theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer, and researcher currently based between Brussels and London. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of collective memory, shared heritage(s), migration and representation through site-specific and socially engaged performance. Her work blends applied performance methodologies with choreography, dramaturgy, and design, often activating spaces, wether theatrical or not, as places of embodied history, co-creation and exchange.
She holds a First Class Honours BA in Performance Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London, and has trained extensively in acting, physical theatre, and theatre making across Europe. Her education includes Commedia dell’Arte with Eugenio Allegri (a direct Lecoq pupil), work with Laboratorio Teatrale Terzo Millennio, and training at institutions such as the National Italian Theatre Academy in Salerno, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and RITCS School of Arts in Brussels. From 2022 to 2024, she undertook contemporary dance and choreography training at danscentrumjette, where she is now co-director alongside Roxane Huilmand.
In 2023, she founded dancing from archives, a dance research and creation platform dedicated to industrial heritage, spatial memory, and inclusion of working-class narratives in the performing arts. Its first production, Chapter 1: SUGAR, was selected by Perform Europe 2024. Her ongoing research project received a research bursary from Charleroi Danse and La Fonderie Brussels for the 2023–24 season.
In 2025, Giulia was selected for the artistic residency in Câmpina, hosted by Rafinăria la prezent / Refinery Now! and the 1503 Association, with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bucarest, EUNIC Romania, the Romanian branch of the European Union National Institutes for Culture.
She has worked internationally as a project leader, teacher, advisor, and coach in theatre- making, dramaturgy, dance theatre, and performance design across a variety of contexts, from independent projects to theatre institutions. Collaborations include NeosKosmos Social House (Athens), Total Insight Theatre and Hub67 (London), MovArt, BRONKS (Belgium), Ciplak Ayaklar Cumpanyasi (Istanbul and Iznik) supported by VAHA, as well as the SunLand Foundation (Bulgaria). Giulia is also a guest teacher in the theatre department of RITCS School of Arts.
“My work is rooted in the belief that the performing arts can serve as a powerful tool for reclaiming, preserving, and reactivating collective memory - especially the memories that have been ereased or silenced and the stories that remain unheard.
As a theatre maker, choreographer, and performance designer, I don’t aim to create fiction, but rather to offer insight and magnify the parts of the world we often overlook or fail to see.”
