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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frances Chiaverini (Juilliard, BFA 2003) is a Performer, Activist, and Director. She was a member of The Forsythe Company in its final seasons and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, 2019-2020. With Robyn Doty as Whistle, Frances is co-directing a social justice curriculum for dance artists titled “Disrupting Harm in Dance: How to feel safe, connected, and empowered” supported by the m2ACT Migros-Kulturprozent.
Her work uses interactive performance and cyber engagement to discuss ideas of objectivity, reproductive justice, valuation, and the politics of formalized dance aesthetics. She is currently working with BRUCH at Theater Neumarkt and Trajal Harrell at Schauspielhaus Zürich.
While a 2016-18 Fellow at Pact Zollverein Choreographic Center and with writer Robyn Doty, she co-founded Whistle, a public interface for calling out sexism, discrimination, and abuse at work in dance and performance-related fields. Since 2017 Whistle has consulted with institutions and individuals, facilitated workshops, created resources and tools, and spoken publicly about #metoo in dance. She has worked with Adam Linder in the US and UK, and was a choreographic consultant for Anne Imhof for works at Palais de Tokyo, Tate Modern, The Venice Biennale, MoMa PS. 1, Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof, Art Basel, and La Biennale de Montréal. Frances appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013.
Frances teaches movement and performance concepts most recently for the Goethe Institute in Mexico and Armenia, Venice Biennale, Pact Zollverein, The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and ZHdK in Zürich.
In 2017 and 2019, she received two production grants supported by the city of Frankfurt am Main, the first with dancer Katja Cheraneva, to create and present original works and the second to create It’s my house and I live here. (2019) with Julia Eichten.
Her latest works include Open Carry//Concealed Carry (2018) commisioned by saasfee*pavillon, Separation of Church and State or How to Make Your Mother Proud on Election Day (2020) for Rimini Aparat, and HAUCH (2021) with Ensemble Modern.
Nobody100 supporters collaborators and friends Include:
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zürich University of the Arts)
Rimini Apparat
Center for Ballet and the Arts / NYU
sad
Paula Kommoss
Kai Hügel
Patrick Lauckner
Ulf Naumann
Sebastian Rietz
photos by Danilo Barsch, Luis Rodriguez, Frances Chiaverini, Katja Cheraneva, SAD, Nadine Fraczkowski
text editors: Robyn Doty, Katja Cheraneva, Riley Watts