Nationally touring dancer, DJ, storyteller, and choreographer, Giuliana Velez is a movement artist based in Houston, Texas. Giuliana’s artistic practice is rooted in stylistic versatility with cultural preservation spanning across street, contemporary, hip hop, Latin, and modern dance vocabularies and genres of music.  She earned her BFA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin (2025) and exhibited most recently as a Project Row Houses artist in residence. The multipart, interactive residency, “Mine: the body recentered” centered around themes of objectification and reclamation of the human body. Currently, Giuliana is serving as the director of Inertia Dance Company at Westside High School, bringing her expertise to the classroom.