PRISCILLA.
PIZZIOL
CHOREOGREPHER
FELDENKRAIS TEACHER
CO-FOUNDER OF MACULA
MACULA IS A COLLECTIVE OF ARTIST ACTIVE SINCE 2021 OFFICIALLY REGISTERED AS A CULTURAL ASSOCIATION IN 2025. THE COLLECTIVE HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE FIELD OF PERFORMING ARTS CREATING ARTISTIC WORKS, TEACHING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS CURATING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROJECTS AND HOSTING RESIDENCIES IN HIS YURT.IN TUSCANY, ITALY
THE RESIDENCY TAKES PLACE IN A 70 M² YURT WITH WOODEN FLOOR AND A WHITE LENEOLEUM, BASIC TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT FOR SOUND, LIGHT AND PROJECTION.ARE PROVIDED. THE SPACE IS DEDICATED TO MOVEMENT RESEARCH AND COLLECTIVE PRACTICE. THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT, OLIVE GROVES, FORESTS AND NEARBY VILLAGES, FUNCTIONS AS AN EXTENDED WORKSPACE FOR PRACTICES, SITE-SPECIFIC EXPLORATION AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.
RESIDENTS ARE ACCOMMODATED IN A NEARBY STONE HOUSE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE STUDIO, WITH PRIVATE ROOMS, SHARED KITCHEN AND OUTDOOR SPACES.
ACTIVITIES
PHASE 1 - ARRAVING AND GROUNDING
SOMATIC PRACTICE IS THE GROUND FROM WHERE ARTISTS WILL DEVELOP INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE RESEARCH.
THIS WILL BE EXPERIENCED BY DAILY STUDIO PRACTICE, WALKS IN THE NATURAL SURROUNDING AND SESSIONS OF SENSORY MAPPING OF THE TERRITORY.
PHASE 2 - EXCHANGE
:
THE PROCESS BECOMES COLLECTIVE..ARTISTS SHARE PRACTICES ACROSS DISCIPLINES, EXPERIMENT WITH SITE-SPECIFIC CREATION AND CO-FACILITATE A PUBLIC WORKSHOP TO TEST EMERGING METHODOLOGIES.
DURING THIS PHASE COLLECTIVE DISCUSSIONS AND BRAINSTORMING WILL BE FACILITATED THROUGH WEEKLY SESSION TO START IMAGINING TOGETHER THE INSTALLATION AND SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES.
PHASE 3 - PUBLIC SHARING:
THE RESEARCH CULMINATES IN 3 SITE-SPECIFIC PARTECIPATORY PERFORMANCES IN THE NEARBY VILLAGES, THE CREATION OF A SMALL ECOLOGICAL INSTALLATION USING NATURAL MATERIALS COLLECTED DURING THE PROCESS.AND THE PRODUCTION AND PROJECTION OF A SHORT A DOCUMENTARY THAT REFLECTS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARTISTIC RESEARCH, LANDSCAPE AND COMMUNITY.
HERE FOLLOW SOME PREVIOUS PROJECTS CURATED BY THE COLLECTIVE
COOKING HORIZONS (2026)
Creative residency for imagining future projects
Curated, organized and hosted by Priscilla Pizziol and Edoardo Sgambato at Casa Pereti
artists in residencies: Placida Pajares, Tereza Jurakova , Sara Janaskovic, Agnes Distelberger, Ruben Bosetti, Chiara Lunardi, Chiara Zompa, Beatrice Gatti.
HOSTED
RESIDENCIES
2024 -2026
Curated and organized by Priscilla Pizziol and Edoardo Sgambato
Hosted by Gaia Terra.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROJECTS CURATED
AND ORGANIZED
A STRUCTURED PROGRAM, MADE OF 4 INTENSIVE WEEK THAT HAS THE AIM TO OFFER A VALUABLE AND SUSTAINABLE POSSIBILITY OF STUDY AND RESEARCH IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION, WITHIN A GROUP AND INSIDE THE FRAME OF A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE IN NATURE. AROUND 30 EXPERTS MOVERS PARTICIPATED IN THE ENTIRE PROCESS, OF THE FIRST EDITION CREATING A NURTURING ENVIRONMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE GROWTH. THE SECOND EDITION IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING AND IS WELCOMING AROUND 30 DANCERS.
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
ASSOCIATED ARTIST BY ZEROGRAMMI DANCE THEATRE COMPANY SINCE 2021
AWARDS
Nuovo Grand Tour 2025/2026, Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore 2024, Award La Baraka - Presente Futuro 2023, Culture Moves Europe 2023, L'Italia dei visionari 2023, Recognition of best choreographic writing - Cortoindanza 2022, Dance award - Solo coreografico 2021, Permutazioni 2019.
FESTIVALS
Kilowatt (IT), Exister (IT), Ammutinamenti (IT), Aurillac (FR), La chapelle (FR), Mas Danza (SP), Solo coreografico Torino (IT), Ankara solo contemporary festival (TR), I dialoghi della danza e di ricerca (IT), Incastro Festival (IT), Performare Festival (IT) , Dominio Pubblico (IT), Logos (IT), Caffeine (IT). Network Puglia (IT)
A site-specific performance that weaves dance and voice into a tapestry of poetic sounds and gestures, inviting the audience to recognise themselves as part of the landscape and its wonder.
This work is a concrete invitation to stop merely occupying space and start inhabiting it; an invitation to inhabit the world with care, slowness and attentiveness. An invitation to cultivate, on a daily basis, an embodied ethic of living, moving towards an awareness that is not merely theoretical but becomes lived experience, rooted in the skin, in the cells, in everyday gestures. An invitation to imagine a form of environmental sustainability that is not merely a strategy or technique, but an existential choice, felt in the body and in the relationships that run through it..
ENTANGLED NATURES
By and with | Edoardo Sgambato, Priscilla Pizziol and Sofia Boarino
Dance | Edoardo Sgambato, Priscilla Pizziol
Live music | Sofia Boarino
Production | Collettivo Macula (2025)
VIDEO
A site-specific performance that stems from a practice in which bodies inhabit public space in a sensitive manner, becoming mediators of a new perception of the everyday environment.
"Let us rediscover an appreciation for simplicity,
let us give voice to silence, and weave new languages through which to communicate.
Let us rethink the way we are accustomed to viewing the world, inhabiting places, and paying attention to the bodies present and the stories they carry with them."
LIMINAL BODIES
By Edoardo Sgambato and Priscilla Pizziol
With Beatrice Gatti, Chiara Zompa, Placida Pajares, Rosalie Kubny, Ruben Bosetti, Chiara Lunardi, Lies Lambrecth, Tereza Yurakova
Production Collettivo Macula (2025)
VIDEO
A CHOREOGRAPHIC INSTALLATION FOR TWO DANCERS AND A LIVE MUSICIAN
“To give voice and form to that sense of emptiness and existential disorientation that pervades us in these uncertain times, we are creating an installation, a performance, a play, a postcard from our bedroom.”
GREETINGS FROM THE VOID
By and with Priscilla Pizziol & Edoardo Sgambato
Original music and live sampling by Walter Laureti
Production Zerogrammi (2024)
VIDEO
A choreography
for two bodies
and a chair
.
A critique of love
that unfolds
in a succession of
cinematic transparencies
.
Twenty minutes
to bear witness
to the fragility
of caring.
A poetic tribute to someone who is no longer physically with us....
AMELIA
By and with Priscilla Pizziol & Edoardo Sgambato
Original music by Walter Laureti
Costumes by Mariangela Di Domenico
Production Zerogrammi (2023)
Making art
is to cultivate
a poetic gaze on the world
is to remind the eyes
how to fill themselves
with wonder
the skin to widen
to welcome the other
to the body
to become soft
and generous
sinking into an eternal sunset
existing with eternal dawn,
possessing nothing but the possibility of being everything,
translate,
mutate,
navigate
in this unknown sea we call dance.