Claudia Palazzo is a London born artist working at the intersections and contradictions of dance, performance art, installation and alternative cabaret. It is often poetic, unmanageable, meditative and violent in its structure. Influenced by roots in nightclub culture, inner-city structures and psychophysical training, allowing space for dissociation and reassociation as a way of processing, contextualising and navigating things which may feel enormous. Her work often exists in a place of tension using the interplay between inherent strength and the impact of damage. Using embodiment and the live experience as a way of allowing transference and mutual recognition with each other and with objects. Claudia is often preoccupied with how we embody things we don’t talk about and how dancing can exist as mystery, affirmation and transformation. As something to hide behind and expose ourselves. She seeks to establish charged connections and feedback loops of understanding with an audience in order to process and harness the power and feeling of a temporary community. Her work is concerned with alternatives to individualism whilst also trying to decensor her autobiography. Claudia is currently looking for things to represent her dancing body in her absence. She is interested in subliminal and feral communication with architecture and an audience and wonders how we can challenge ableist ideals of mobility without succumbing to soft control that is disguised as care. Claudia has also had a 15+ year career as a performer in the work of many artists and choreographers, Is a member of drag troupe The LipSkinkers and regularly teaches, lectures and mentors.
“During this first instalment of her LAB residency Claudia will be working on a new project concerned with the millions of dead olive trees surrounding her Nonnas house. She will also be starting a mentoring relationship with artist Shabnam Shabazi.” – Claudia
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Claudia completed a Lab residency in 2025.
