Claudia Brazzale

Claudia Brazzale is a scholar, choreographer and performer whose work and collaborations have been presented at many venues in the US and Italy. Claudia holds an MA in Performance Studies and PhD in Culture and Performance. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader at the University of East London. She has held positions at Liverpool Hope University, Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.

Claudia first became interested in cross-cultural studies of dance and documentary while working with folklorist Alan Lomax in 1996 in his project Choreometrics, a classification system for the cross-cultural analysis of dance through film that focused on the impact of human migration on dance. This was a significant experience that shaped her interest in film, movement, and culture. Since then this interest has led her to explore diverse forms of dance practices across the world and to study dance and the moving body through many media.

Reflecting on her own transnational artistic trajectory and formation as a dancer and scholar, Claudia’s work focuses on mobility, migration, and the global circulation of traditional dance forms through writing, choreography, and film. Her video experience includes directing Heritage for Sale (1999), a short film documenting Italian heritage culture in New York’s Little Italy; Looping Corridors (2001), a screendance video presented at various international festivals; and the video support for the performance The Aging Daughter (2001). Afropean Moves is part of a larger project of hers which examines the circulation of West African dance and artists in Italy in relation to growing national concerns over migration.

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