Giulia Mureddu

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Giulia Mureddu

The body speaks

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Artistic director: Giulia Mureddu

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Agency: Dansmakers Amsterdam, www.dansmakers.nl

The work of the Amsterdam based maker Giulia Mureddu is known for multi-layered performances where strong, physical impact and innovative choreography intermingle with humour and the existential. The work is characterized by a strange and extremely expressive movement idiom and by a specific construction of score:  improvisation within the structure of the decor provides the performer – and the spectator – with the opportunity to re-experience the body.

Giulia Mureddu has choreographed several projects in collaboration with dramaturge Robin Tunca and light designer Roland van Ulden, such as Bava (2006); Mighty MatPogo (2007); a guest-choreography for Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel, Beige (2007); Escaping Grey (2008) and the duet Amore e Merda (2009). Mureddu also aims to initiate possibilities for exchange and discussion within the field of performance, transcending the borders between makers, performers, specialists and audience by way of linking performances, workshops and encounters.

International: 

Over the last few years, Mureddu has presented her work, led workshops, given lectures and participated in exchange programmes with several international festivals and venues in Cyprus, Italy, Czech republic, UK, Romania, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.

The company has been invited to Poland (Gdansk Dance Festival; Zawirowania Dance Theatre Festival, Warsaw) Slovenia (Platform of Contemporary Dance, Maribor) and the United States (DNA, New York).

She has received excellent reviews in various international papers. For example: ‘A splendidly alternative and physical consideration of all the excitement, anxiety and transient joys that the burden of living (and, inevitably, dying) entails’ (Dance Europe magazine). ‘The choreography visualizes the body by means of the principle of existentialism and reinforces the right of people to shape their own destiny; the conclusion is the fluent and free expression of the body’ (Al Ghad newspaper, Jordan).

video: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito