Fuora Dance Project

al 2015, Assembly Roxy, amongst the others. The company has been awarded with grants from Arts Trust Scotland and residencies from DanceHouse Glasgow, CityMoves Aberdeen, DanceBase Edinburgh, Scottish Dance Theatre (Dundee) , DanceHouse Dublin and The Italian Institute of Culture of Edinburgh. Fuora Dance Project è una compagnia di danza fondata da Federica Esposito e Giulia Montalbano, artiste nell'ambito della danza contemporanea residenti in Scozia. I lavori della compagnia sono stati presentati presso Hidden Door, Scottish StoryTelling Centre e Summerhall (Edimburgo), Streetland e Cottier Dance Project (Glasgow), Resolution2015 (Londra), CityMoves e DanceLive (Aberdeen). La compagnia ha ricevuto sostegno e residenze dal DanceBase di Edimburgo, DanceHouse di Glasgow, CityMoves Aberdeen, Arts Trust Scotland, Scottish Dance Theatre e dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo. Bios Giulia Montalbano and Federica Esposito:


GIULIA MONTALBANO
Graduated with a First-Class Honours degree and Postgraduate from London Contemporary Dance School and spending a season working with Scottish Dance Theatre (2012-13) as an apprentice. Highly experienced in ballet and contemporary techniques such as Cunningham, Release, Floor work and Skin realise including physical theatre. In addition, she also is high experienced in improvisation, contact work and in choreography. All this lead into her teaching styles to disable, children from 0 to 11years old, adult and youth dance companies around Scotland and Italy (Scottish Dance Theatre Youth Company, YDance, DanceHouse Glasgow, Vivace Dance Theatre, CityMoves Aberdeen, etc...). Giulia has performed pieces by Maura Morales, Hofesh and many other famous choreographers. Her ideas are to keep explore new adventure, new experiences in the contemporary dance context and her dream is to create a big company and work more nationally and internationally. FEDERICA ESPOSITO
Freelance dance artist, Federica holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Cultures and graduated from Modem Studio Atelier, a professional contemporary dance course run by Compagnia Zappalà Danza (Italy), in 2004. Since then she has worked with various companies including Compagnia Zappalà Danza (IT), Legitimate Bodies Dance Company (IRE), Compagnia Pareri Variabili (IT), Animated State Dance Theatre Company (IRE), Teatro Stabile di L'Aquila (IT), Cie Eco (FR), Altered Skin (UK) and Gwyn Emberton Dance (UK), Underhand Dance Company (UK), amongst the others. Her career has been enriched with further experiences with choreographers such as Giusi Santagati, Linda Magnifico, Philippe Ménard, Wei Ming P**n, Matteo Moles, etc. She teaches a wide range of techniques (floorwork, release, contact-improvisation, physical theatre, ballet technique, etc...) to students at both professional and amateur level, disabled and children. She has taught at Viagrande Studios in Italy, Dundee Rep, Perth Concert Hall, Perth and Kinross Council and Aberdeen University Dance Society, CityMoves, DanceHouse Glasgow, DanceBase in Edinburgh, Horsecross in Scotland, amongst others. She is currently covering the roles of choreographer and assistant for the integrated dance project "Water and Glass", run by Peter Royston and mainly choreographed by Sara Blanc. Reviews and comments on us:

"Two of the three women are dressed in black, and their folksy dance motifs root them in a workaday world; the third, in white, is a benign apparition, also doubling to become the figure in the shroud, the phantom sister from the underworld. The narrative thread in this piece is often, frankly, obscure. But the dancers have real presence, and between them they create an authentic stage world – convincingly specific to them and their material"

The Guardian

"In The Last Maiden (Fuora Dance Project), two strips of white fabric were trailed across the stage in the manner of a never-ending wedding veil. This had the effect of transforming it into a picture plane against which the dancers formed abstract shapes reminiscent of Henry Moore's sculptures, swelling and distorting the female form yet never departing from their human core". Lilia Prier Tisdall, The Place

"T-his/T-hat was absolutely enchanting and aesthetically perfect"

Audience

"I thought the dancers worked really well with the young people. It was a good taster session for learning some Italian words. Well pictured educationally+a nice recab at the end of the workshop. Excellent". Audience

Guest artists: Millie Daniel Dempsey, Joel Wilson, Gemma Shrubb, Amitai Ladin. Producer: Jennifer Phillips