Chiara Frigo
Choreographer and performer, co-founder of Zebra Cultural Zoo, Chiara Frigo has developed her artistic interest in the field of dance and performing arts. Having graduated in molecular biology, she has taken part in international research projects collaborating with Amsterdam’s SNDO, Vancouver’s Dance Center,London’s The Place, Rotterdam’s Dansateliers, Copenhagen’s Dansescenen, and Madrid’s Paso a 2-Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid.
Her choreographic research has focused increasingly on the connection between movement and dramaturgy. In 2010 she started to collaborate with Montreal’s Circuit Est choreographic centre, where she has been a guest for production residencies since. Her poetics delved deeper and deeper into the political and social environment: her piece West End reflects on the decline of the Western world and resorts to a number of different languages. The wish to reach new audiences and involve the local communities led her to create Ballroom, an intergenerational project that was presented in Iceland, in the Netherlands, as well as in numerous Italian festivals. Her piece Himalaya marked the beginning of a research around the topics related to spirituality in arts.
She recently created Blackbird, a community project inspired by art as a form of activism and collective creation; Miss lala al Circo Fernando, conceived for Marigia Maggipinto, a formal performer of Pina Bausch’s, is a reenactment experience of an artistic and personal archive.
She is currently involved in the creation of A Human Song, a large-scale project recently showcased at NID Platform 2024, that brings together citizens of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds.
Chiara also curates video art projects, design projects, and is engaged in theatre collaborations.