Teresa Vittucci (they/she) is an artist working across contemporary performance, dance, theatre, and visual art. Their practice investigates feminist and queer perspectives on the body, pop culture, history, religion and class. Bad jokes are always part of the process, and humour, together with abstraction, is a central method in their artistic working. Teresa’s work brings together somatic practice, performative precision and the work with drama or «the dramatic» in dialogue with theoretical research. Their work enters into dialogue with new materialist, queer, and post-humanist discourse to think through and with the body as a political terrain. As a fat, neurodivergent, and queer artist, their perspective is shaped equally by lived bodily experience and by both formal and informal education. These positionalities are embedded deeply in both their artistic, performative and research practices.
Besides Teresa’s extensive solo work, they have collaborated with several artists and institutions including Melanie Jame Wolf, Colin, Self, Michael Turinsky, Claire V. Sobottke, Simone Aughterlony, Marie Caroline Hominal, Trajal Harrell, Alexander Giesche, Annina Machaz, Theater HORA and Nils Amadeus Lange. Her works have been presented at Impulstanz, Centre Pompidou, Kampnagel Hamburg, Theaterspketakel Zurich, Kinani Festival Moçambique, Institute for Creative Arts in Cape Town, Deutsches Theater Berlin, les urbaines, Impulse Theaterfestival, Festival Santarcangelo, Manifesta and several others.
Teresa has received the danceWEB scholarship and the Austrian STARTstipendium scholarship and was awarded the Recognition prize by the City of Zürich and the Swiss Dance Prize for HATE ME, TENDER. In 2022 Teresa created RIDE on invitation by Centre Pompidou and Leopoldine Turbat. In 2024 Teresa launched their ongoing research on affect through a series of labs, performances and stage works around GRIEF, RAGE and JOY. Teresa is currently an accomplice Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich. Their trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability HATE ME, TENDER, DOOM, and SANE SATAN continues to be presented at national and international venues as a trilogy and stand-alone works.