Giulia Vitiello is an Italian-born theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer, and researcher, currently based between Brussels and London. Her transdisciplinary practice develops from questions she feels an urgency to explore, both personally, socially, and historically. With a strong focus on artistic research, she creates space to engage with these questions and examine how they are carried and shaped by time. Recurring themes include collective memory, heritage, migration, and representation.
Her practice, at times theatrical, post-dramatic, or site-responsive, creates spaces where stories, histories, and lived experiences can be shared and held collectively. Her work draws on theatre, performance, choreography, and stage design, often activating spaces, whether theatrical or not, as sites of memory, 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 performance, acting, theatre practices, and theatre making across Europe. She began her training at a young age with Play Magliano and Laboratorio Teatrale Terzo Millennio, and later expanded her studies to include Commedia dell’Arte with Eugenio Allegri, intensive voice training with Daniela Tessore, and various physical theatre practices and acting techniques. Her education also includes training at the National Italian Theatre Academy in Salerno, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and RITCS School of Arts in Brussels.
Since 2023, she was an artist in residence at danscentrumjette, where she deepened her research in movement practices, dance, and documentary forms while completing a three-year professional programme in contemporary dance and choreography. Since 2024, Giulia has been the co-director of danscentrumjette alongside Roxane Huilmand, with whom she also collaborates closely and continues to develop her practice.
In 2023 she founded dancing from archives, a dance and performaning arts research and creation platform dedicated to industrial heritage, collective memory, and the inclusion of working-class narratives and communities within the performing arts. Its first production, Chapter 1: SUGAR, was selected by Perform Europe and received support to tour across Ireland, Belgium, and Italy.
She has worked internationally as a maker, researcher, teacher, coach, and collaborator across theatre-making, dramaturgy, dance theatre, and performance design, in contexts ranging from independent initiatives to established institutions. Her work has been developed and shared with organisations including NeosKosmos Social House (Athens), Total Insight Theatre and Hub67 (London), MovArt, BRONKS and Cultureghem (Belgium), Insieme Immigrati Italia, Steiner School Brussels (Kunstenaar in de Klaas), Labolobo (Belgium), Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi (Istanbul), the SunLand Foundation (Bulgaria), and EUNIC Romania, the British Council, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bucarest, and Zamolxes Foundation (Romania).
Since 2023, she has been a guest teacher in the theatre department of RITCS School of Arts and a member of Common Matters, a collective emerging from the CIRCE – Creative Impact Research Centre network.
She has presented her own work and performed at venues across the UK, including Tate Modern, Espacio Gallery, Deptford Lounge, Platform Theatre, Stour Space, Grow Hackney, The Project, Blasé House, and Poplar Union; in Belgium at KVS and danscentrumjette; in Ireland at The Source Arts Centre; in Italy at Teatro Augusteo, Teatro Don Bosco, Teatro di Palazzo Rosso, Teatro Sacco, Teatro Lux, and Piccolo Teatro Iqbal Masih; and in Bucharest at the Romanian Order of Architects and FSPUB.
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