Giulia Tonelli completed her dance diploma at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School. After an engagement as demi-soloist at the Royal Ballet of Flanders, she received a soloist contract at the Zurich Ballet under Heinz Spoerli in 2009, where she was promoted to First Soloist in 2018 under Christian Spuck. 2003 she won the Eurocity Competition. 2013 she was awarded the Premio Giuliano-Penzi. 2017 she received the Price of the Friends of Ballet Zurich. In 2018 and 2022 she was nominated best female dancer of the year by Dance Europe Magazine. In 2023 she was Dancer of the Year in Tanznetz.de. In 2020, in response to the COVID epidemic, she created the virtual ballet gala "Re-Salire". 2023 she was the main subject of the documentary “Becoming Giulia” by Laura Kaehr, which won the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival and focused on balancing life as a prima ballerina and a mother. Since 2024 she works as a freelance dancer and international guest principal.
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