Fuora Dance Project was founded by Federica Esposito and Giulia Montalbano in February 2014. In 2016, Giulia took over as the Artistic Director and since then Fuora has continued to create and present its own repertoire at various venues and festivals, including:
DanceLive, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Italian Institute of Culture of Edinburgh and London, Cottier Dance Project '14/'16, Scottish Dance Theatre, 100 days/100 dances, Resolution!2015, Luminate 2017, Teatro Libero di Palermo, Dance International Glasgow '15, London Bridge Live Arts Festival, Perth Dance Festival, Dundee Dance Festival, North Edinburgh Arts, Platform Glasgow, CityMoves Dance Agency, Assembly Roxy, NEAT, Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Fuora Dance Project è una compagnia di danza fondata da Federica Esposito e Giulia Montalbano. Attualamente la direzione Artistica e’ pilotata da Giulia la quale vive ancora in Scozia.
Giulia Montalbano
Graduated with a First-Class Honours Degree and Postgraduate from London Contemporary Dance School. Giulia is a full time dance teacher of ballet , floor-barre and contemporary dance, including Cunningham, Release, floor work and Skin release, Contact Improvisation and Partnering work.
Her current teaching experience includes teaching to the physically impaired and children from 0 to 11 years, youth groups and adults as well as with companies training for professional dance in Scotland. These include:
Dance House Glasgow; Scottish Dance Theatre; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Macrobert Stirling; YDance, Horsecross; Nurseries and Primary Schools around Scotland; Dance Base; CityMoves; Fife Youth.
Her career has been enriched with additional international experiences as performer including: Cora Bissett (Grit); Scottish Dance Theatre; Rambert Dance Company (Dane Hurst); Alan Danielson (Limon Dance Company); Jo Strogmen (Sweden); Victor Qujada (Canada); Hofesh; Liv Lorent; Fleur Darkin; Maura Morales (Germany); Shumpei Nemoto (Japan); Matthias Kass (Switzerland); Eliot Smith Dance; Janice Garrett (USA); Company Idem (Switzerland); Rep of Shioban Davies (London); Richard Alston (Ceremony of Carols); Rob Heaslip; Henri Oguike and Shaper/Caper.
Giulia worked with Rosie Kay as dance leader for 5 soldiers and as a choreographer for the premiere of the new show from Marc Brew, as choreographer for Youth engagement, in Dundee.
She is currently Dance Development Officer for Aspire Dundee and Artistic Director of Fuora Dance Project.
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
Producer : Ashley Pilling
