Residency of Diane Portelli - Moveo Dance

hosted by Dance Festival Malta

Participating countries:

  • Italy
  • Malta
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Dance
  • Music
  • Storytelling

Period

  • From 03-02-2026 to 28-07-2026
Generation #4

Website

Address

Floriana
Malta

Project summary

Ashes 2 Ashes is a contemporary dance project exploring diversity, resilience, and shared humanity through the metaphor of soil, the ground that connects us all. Across four residencies and two performances in different European countries, 4 artists collaborate with minority communities, gathering voices and stories that are transformed into movement and sound. Each residency culminates in a community sharing. At the end of the project, these layers will be distilled into a final performance, embodying resistance and release, fragmentation and unity which will be presented in Malta for the Malta International Arts Festival and Dance Festival Malta. All movement and music will draw inspiration from stories told by specific minority groups and the actual soil beneath us drawing a parallel on

Artist

Diane Portelli - Moveo Dance

Biography: Diane Portelli began dancing at age three at the Tanya Bayona Princess Poutiatine Academy of Ballet, training in ballet, modern, contemporary, and flamenco. She later joined The Dance Workshop as a teacher and choreographer, earning the Luisello Award for Spanish Dance and the Duke of Ellington Award for Modern Dance. She has trained internationally with companies such as Random Dance, Ultima Vez, and Hofesh Shechter, and won two gold medals at the World Championships for Performing Arts in Hollywood. In 2024, her work Frida – My Two Accidents won Best Dance Project at Arts Council Malta’s awards. Rooted in advocacy for underrepresented communities, her project Diversely Typical (2021) won the People’s Choice Award at the STEAM Awards, was invited to the New European Bauhaus Conference in
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