Michela Meazza
Dancer & Dance Artist
Overview
Michela Meazza [mee-keh-la meh-at-tza]
[she/her/hers]
Joined New Adventures
1997
Awards
Best Contemporary Dancer (Critics' Circle Award 2012)
Michela was the recipient of the Outstanding Female Modern Performance Award as Miss Roach in The Midnight Bell at the 2021 NaPonal Dance Awards. She was also nominated for Best Contemporary Dancer at the CriPcs’ Circle Award 2012. Michela is currently an Associate Dance PracPPoner with Mabhew Bourne’s New Adventures. She has also taken part in several research and development workshops for the NaPonal Theatre and has choreographed for music videos and short films by emerging arPsts as well as regularly teaching dance classes and workshops.
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a luminous stage presence that draws all eyes to her character whenever she’s on stage
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Training
London Studio Centre and Aterballetto (Italy)
Credits
For ADVENTURES IN MOTION PICTURES
- Swan Lake
- Cinderella – 1997
- The Car Man – 2000 (Original Cast) Lana, Delores
For NEW ADVENTURES
- Play Without Words – (Original Cast) Glenda
- Nutcracker! Sugar, Marshmallow
- Edward Scissorhands – (Original Cast) Joyce Monroe
- The Car Man Lana
- Dorian Gray Lady H
- Cinderella – 2010/11 & 2017/18 (London Only) Sybil (The Stepmother)
- The Red Shoes – 2016/17 & 2019/20 Irina Boronskaya
- The Midnight Bell – (Original Cast) Miss Roach
- Swan Lake The Queen
FILM
- The Car Man – 2003
- Matthew Bourne's Christmas – 2012
- Cinderella – 2017 The Stepmother
- The Red Shoes – 2020 Irina Boronskaja
OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Dry Write (Ann Yee) – 2010 Latitude Festival
- Electic Hotel (F. Reqardt & D. Rosenberg) King's Cross (site-specific performance)
- Really Old, like Forty Five (Anna Mackmin) National Theatre
- Pictures from an Exhibition (F. Requardt & D. Kramer) Young Vic
- Three and Russian Roulette (Lea Anderson) London & UK Tour
- Romeo and Juliet ENO at Royal Albert Hall
- Movement Director – Hedda Gabler (dir. Chelsea Walker) Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
- Associate Movement Director – Julie (dir. Carrie Cracknell, mov. dir. Ann Yee) National Theatre
- Associate Movement Director – The Phlebotomist (dir. Sam Yates) Hampstead Theatre
- Associate Movement Director – Murder Ballad (dir. Sam Yates) Arts Theatre
- Associate Movement Director – Cymbeline (Sam Yates) Globe Theatre
- Associate Movement Director – Boa (dir. Hannah Price) Trafalgar Studios
- Teaching dance classes and movement workshops at Birkbeck University and for New Adventures
Recent Credits as Movement Director/Choreographer includes:
- – All’s Well That Ends Well Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe
- – The New Real RSC in Stratford
- – The Lightest Element Hampstead Theatre
- – Visit From An Unknown Woman Hampstead Theatre
- – First Encounters – Romeo & Juliet RSC 2024
- – This Much I Know Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
- – Vanya Duke of York
- – The Land of Might Have Been Buxton Internanational Festival
- – The Vortex Chichester Festival Theatre 2023
- – The Comedy of Errors Mercury Theatre Colchester
- – Hedda Gabler directed by Chelsea Walker Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
- – The Starry Messenger directed by Sam Yates Wyndham’s Theatre
- – The Phlebotomis tdirected by Sam Yates and nominated for “Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre” at the 2019 Olivier Awards Hampstead Theatre
- – Murder Ballad directed by Sam Yates Arts Theatre
- – Cymbeline directed by Sam Yates Globe Theatre
- – Boa directed by Hannah Price Trafalgar Studios
- – South Pacific Sadler’s Wells and UK Tour
- – Julie National Theatre
- – The Two Character Play Hampstead Theatre
- – The L Train Hoxton Hall
- – Orpheus and Eurydice Old Vic Tunnels