
MICHELA PRIULI
ASSOCIATED ARTIST

Choreographer, performer, and certified Gyrokinesis® Trainer.
She graduated from the Susanna Beltrami Academy and later deepened her choreographic and choreological studies through advanced training courses, including I corpi e le voci della danza and Bo.A.T. She has worked for the Susanna Beltrami Company and with choreographers such as Sita Ostheimer, Kristina Alleyne, Marigia Maggipinto, Paola Lattanzi, and Annalì Rinaldi. Since 2021, she has been an associated artist of DANCEHAUSpiù and has created two works for the Dancehaus Company, Primo Movimento and Roots. In the same year, she created Maya for the Oliva Contemporary Dance Project and Amante in collaboration with actress Giulia Gaudenzi. In 2024, she was selected by GRADUS – Passaggi per il nuovo, won the 600 BEATS call, which commissioned Pachakuti for the Eurasia Dance Company, and created Ukiyo for the Ensemble Bozzolini in Florence. At the same time, her work embraces the fields of research and education: she works in primary schools together with the Laboratorio degli Archetipi in Lodi; she conducts movement and dance workshops for amateurs and non-dancers with the ABC Inganni Association; she teaches at the Dancehaus Hip Hop Department, the Susanna Beltrami Academy, the Kataklò Academy, and MAPP Milano – MBA Art Therapy School.

PACHAKUTI




Ph Cristina Valla
CHOREOGRAPHY | Michela Priuli
DANCE | Jesus Andres Rea Lopez - EurAsia Dancer
COMMISSIONED BY EurAsia Dance Project International Network e Pitti Immagine
IN COLLABORATION WITH DANCEHAUSpiù
SUPPORTED BY UniCredit
COSTUMES | Marco Hernandez - EurAsia Dancer
duration 31'
Pachakuti etymologically originates from Quechua, where "pacha" signifies time or space, and "kuti" means return or change. This concept, rooted in the Bolivian culture of the dancer, encapsulates the idea of cyclicality, implies a balance between opposing forces, and suggests movement between two extremes. The performance aims to explore the dynamics inherent in this term, functioning as an irregular periodic motion that connects these polarities.
Pachakuti is a work designed for a body and a stick. The latter transforms into an extension of the body, an unstable partner that guides and resists, a boundary, and a landscape that defies the laws of gravity and logic. The body moves between balance and imbalance, creating spaces and geometries while establishing synchronies or disruptions. This oscillatory movement transitions from the specific to the holistic, expanding from the corporeal to the spatial. Each gesture becomes an act of creation and destruction, as the body, suspended between action and inactivity, enters a trance-like state, embodying both a battlefield and a sacred temple. In this context, the boundary between the controlled and the unpredictable becomes increasingly tenuous, within a dimension where space contorts and time appears to disregard its natural sequence and rhythm.

CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | MICHELA PRIULI
with | BARBARA ALLEGREZZA, NICOLÓ CASTAGNI
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù / 2022
duration 16'
"If one were to stop and listen to the work of roots, who could sleep?"
In all possible declinations of the word Roots, it evokes an action that intimately connects two or more elements and invokes multiple meanings: from rootedness in a place, to the relationship between the inside and the outside, from knowing one's own origins or those of a word, to nourishment and connection with Mother Earth.
The performance investigates precisely the dynamics inherent in this word and originates from the need to go deep into some of the laws that govern the body in order to know its sources, the desire to question the concepts of intimacy and relationship, and the decision to stop running away from one's roots. Through the relationship between the two protagonists and archetypes of the story, the two bodies merge almost to the point of creating one, and through subtle and deep listening they support each other to grow. They will rely on each other's arms, seek a firm but flexible rootedness and perform the most frightening "dance" in the world: the act of loving.



ROOTS
Ph Michela Piccinini

1° MOVIMENTO
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION | MICHELA PRIULI
with | BARBARA ALLEGREZZA, NICOLÓ CASTAGNI E ANDREA PIRAS
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
duration 26'
"There is a mask for family, one for society, one for work. And when you stand alone, you remain a nobody" [Luigi Pirandello].
This project is a reflection on man and family born during the period of isolation due to the COVID-19 emergency. The pandemic years have challenged the very figure of man who found himself alone in his true home, the body: the perfect place in which to welcome and somatize the different facets of our psyche, the seat of our cultural heritage, a social cage and home of the ambivalence of its possible meanings.
"1st movement" is a personal quest for representation of some of these ambivalences, a lens on relationships that can explode when placed in a dimension of captivity, an inner journey turned physical, in which three characters, become bearers and become archetypes of a humanity, and specifically of a family, with a multifaceted nature rich in nuances, details, light and shadow. Together they will revisit old memories from a dusty photo album, bringing to light past events of which they wear only useless grudges, youthful remorse and established prejudices until...


PHOTOS | M. BITTANTE