Giulia Vitiello

Giulia Vitiello is an Italian theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer, and researcher based between Brussels and London. Her transdisciplinary practice develops from questions she feels an urgency to explore across personal, social, and historical contexts. 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 in her work include collective memory, heritage, migration, and representation.
Working across theatre, movement, and performance design, her practice creates environments where stories, histories, and lived experiences can be shared and held collectively. She often activates spaces, theatrical or non theatrical, as sites of memory, co creation, and exchange.
Since 2024, she has been co director of danscentrumjette alongside Roxane Huilmand, with whom she collaborates closely.
In 2023, she founded dancing from archives, a dance and performing arts research and creation platform dedicated to industrial heritage, collective memory, and the inclusion of working class narratives within the performing arts. Its first production, Chapter 1: SUGAR, was selected by Perform Europe and supported to tour across Ireland, Belgium, and Italy.
She works internationally as a maker, researcher, teacher, coach, and collaborator across theatre making, dramaturgy, dance theatre, and performance design. Since 2023, she has been a teacher in the theatre department at RITCS School of Arts and a member of Common Matters, a collective emerging from the CIRCE Creative Impact Research Centre network.
Training and education include: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (BA Performance Design and Practice); National Italian Theatre Academy, Salerno; Zürcher Hochschule der Künste; RITCS School of Arts, Brussels; Commedia dell’Arte with Eugenio Allegri; voice training with Daniela Tessore; early training with Play Magliano and Laboratorio Teatrale Terzo Millennio.
Her work has been developed, performed, and shared with organisations and venues including: Tate Modern, Espacio Gallery, Platform Theatre, Poplar Union, and Deptford Lounge in the United Kingdom; KVS and danscentrumjette in Belgium; The Source Arts Centre in Ireland; Teatro Augusteo, Teatro Don Bosco, Teatro Lux, and Piccolo Teatro Iqbal Masih in Italy; and Romanian Order of Architects and FSPUB in Bucharest.