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ORNELLA PRIETO
Dancer | Performer
Bellow you can find the projects I am currently part of or have done in the past.
Katja Heitmann/This is not a show: Motus Mori
Motus Mori is an attempt to preserving human movement.
In 2019 I have started an internship as a dancer for this production and am now continuing this adventure as a professional dancer.
We are touring in the Netherlands, Poland, Germany and Belgium.
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Kalpanarts - True Life
Kalpanarts creates performances in which the dance style Bharatanatyam is combined with contemporary dance.
True Life is a musical dance performance about death and the celebration of life. In the space where death defies the living, consoles and challenges, six dancers and a musician, Shishani Vranckx (vocals & guitar), give an expressive performance.
I have taken part in this project as a repetitor and as second cast.
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Skypunch Collective - NAÎAD
SKYPUNCH COLLECTIVE, formed by dance makers Celine Werkhoven & Anna Zurkirchen and composer Antonio Alemanno, created a floating performance installation in collaboration with architect Ad Roefs.
In NAÎAD, two female creatures appear at the top of a mirrored cliff. With an alienating dance, bodies and limbs twisting and turning in impossible ways, they lure drowning people out of the water. As they try to climb the cliff, a game unfolds between holding on and letting go, seducing and pushing away, drowning and rising again.
Maureen Jonker: Compositions Of Transformations #2
In Compositions of Transformations #2 performers retain certain physical positions for an indefinite period of time. These positions fit perfectly in a frame created to match the ratio of the human body and they are enfolded by pipes that are incorporated within the frame. The figures and physical positions are alternated continuously. The work is set up and deconstructed without an indication of a time stamp.
This work was on display during the This Art Fair in Amsterdam in August 2021.
Ischa Statie/LazySusan & Co:
Waar Wij Zijn
Waar Wij Zijn is a collaboration between the choreographer Ischa Statie and the Rotterdam based collective Lazy Susan & Co.
Rob Hayden: Sinfonia
Sinfonia is a piece created during the Gate 8 Performance Project in January 2020.
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For this performance I won a Special Prize of 1000 euros for best performer of the piece Sinfonia.
MoOv: Night Swimmers
Night Swimmers explores the clubbing culture – a space which has long been a thriving ground for the individual and the collective.
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The performance was created by the partnership MoOv (Lucas Devroe & Izah Hankammer) for the club event The Pink Box in de Werkwarenhuis in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Ornella Prieto: SOLO
SOLO was cerated by myself as a research during my third year at the Fontys Dance Academy.
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Music: Before the Beginning, John Frusciante
Film: Tobias Mathijsen - Studio Lumberjack
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Leanne Hekkert: Kaya
Kaya is a site-specific duet created by Leanne Hekkert for the Nacht van de Kunsten 2018 in Tilburg.
Performed by Anne Roeper and Ornella Prieto.
End Performances of the Fontys Dance Academy
During my training at the Fontys Dance Academy from 2016 till 2020 I have performed the works of the following choreographers:
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Lucie Petrusova,
Marc van Loon,
Tony Vezich,
Jelena Kostic,
Sara Wiktorowicz,
Roberto Olivan.
© 2021 Ornella Prieto | prieto.ornella@gmail.com
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