A project dance company co-founded by Federica Esposito and Giulia Montalbano in Dundee in 2014. Gi Recently finished to work with Cora Bissett (Grit).
Fuora Dance Project is a new project company by Federica Esposito and Giulia Montalbano, dance artists based in Scotland. Fuora's pieces have been presented at Hidden Door Festival, Cottier Dance Project, CityMoves Dance Agency, Scottish StoryTelling Centre, Streetland Glasgow, London Bridge Live Arts Festival, DanceLive Aberdeen, Resolution2015, Perth Dance Festival 2015, Dundee Rep Dance Festiv
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
20/08/2025
If it wasn't for my lovely theatre call,I would not be happy as I am right now! Opening time tonight and I wish everyone a massive M***a M***a M***a Toi Toi Too to our cast of Chicago.
22/02/2025
A fantastic day!
Judging more than 90 dance pieces.
Thank you
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".
20/08/2025
22/02/2025