Claudia Palazzo is a London born and based artist and dancer working across the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation, alternative cabaret and film using her body as a responsive site to her environment and territory. The work exists somewhere between the nightclub, gallery and street, and focuses on the live experience and a place to be able to shift through, let go and sit/deal with. It is often poetic, feral, meditative and violent in its structure, influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city concrete dwellings and psychophysical training. She seeks to establish charged connections and subliminal feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness our collective and individual sense of joy, sadness, resistance, power and endurance.

Current research is around absorbing impact, damaged support structures, what can represent us in our absence and repair and rebuild.

Surreal urgency.
On the edge of feral.
With a bassline.

Palazzo has worked with Carlos Motta, Complicité, Carlos-Maria-Romero aka Atabey Mamasita,  Ann-Liv Young, SERAFINE1369, Eddie Peake, Cyberdog, Daniel Oliver, Sinead O’Connor, Lucy McCormick, Marisa Carnesky, Thick and Tight, Michael Dean and many others. She is currently a studio holder at CONDITIONS, a member of drag troupe The Lipsinkers, a member of queer performance and activism collective SPIT and was Artist and Dancer in residence at GROW Tottenham. Claudia is also a guest lecturer at UEL and DJs for The Posh Club – a club for the over 60s run by Duckie.