With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, Italian performer Silvia Gribaudi will take part in the Dublin Dance Festival, where she will perform on 12 and 13 May at 7:30 PM.
Aware of the shared space between performer and audience and driven by a desire to create together, in Suspended Chorus Gribaudi invites spectators to become an integral part of the work – a suspended, ever-changing chorus.
Drawing inspiration from dance pioneers such as Isadora Duncan, Pina Bausch and Anna Pavlova, Gribaudi asks simple and urgent questions: what moves us? What confines us? Who decides what a dancing body should look like?
With humour, vulnerability and fierce curiosity, she places her own over-50 body at the centre as a starting point, revealing its limits and discovering joy in its possibilities. Suspended Chorus breaks down modern codes of beauty, celebrates the fragility of our mortal bodies, and embraces the power of the collective. After all, we move best when we move together.
Tickets can be booked on the Dublin Dance Festival website: https://www.dublindancefestival.ie/events/programme/suspended-chorus
Silvia Gribaudi is an Italian choreographer working in the performing arts. Since 2004, she has placed at the centre of her work the social impact of the body and the relationship between audience and performer, through artistic research on choreographic language, dance, and humour. Her most recent productions include AMAZZONI (2026), co-produced by Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale (IT) and Le Gymnase CDCN – Roubaix (FR); the solo SUSPENDED CHORUS (2025), co-produced by Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale (IT), La Corte Ospitale with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region (IT), Rum för Dans (SE), Le Gymnase CDCN – Roubaix (FR), and What You See Festival (NL); THE DOOZIES (2024), created with Marta Dalla Via and co-produced by Teatro Stabile del Veneto – Teatro Nazionale (IT) and La Corte Ospitale with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region (IT); and GRAND JETÉ (2023), created with MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT) and co-produced by La Biennale de Lyon (FR), Théâtre de la Ville (FR), Rum för Dans (SE), Torinodanza Festival (IT), International Dance Festival TANEC PRAHA (CZ), Zodiak – Side Step Festival (FIN), and the international network Big Pulse Dance Alliance. She received the Premio Giovane Danza D’Autore Veneto with A CORPO LIBERO (2009). She was a finalist for the UBU Award for Best Dance Performance and for the Rete Critica Award with R.OSA, in scena Claudia A. Marsicano (2017). She received the CollaborAction#4 2018–2019 award, was a finalist for the Rete Critica Award 2019, received the DANZA&DANZA Award 2019 for Best Italian Production with GRACES, and the Hystrio Corpo a Corpo Award 2021. Over the years, Gribaudi has collaborated fruitfully with several Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, including those in Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin, Bratislava, Cologne, Lyon, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montreal, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Beijing, Prague, Shanghai, Stockholm, Strasbourg, and Vienna. She is currently an associate artist at Le Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix – France) for the 2024–2026 term and at Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale (2025–2027).