Frances Chiaverini

Frances Chiaverini (graduated from The Juilliard School in 2003) danced with companies and artists including NDT2, The Forsythe Company, Karole Armitage, Schauspielhaus Zürich and Anne Imhof. As a Resident Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts (2020) and at PACT Zollverein (2015 to 2017), Frances Chiaverini co-founded and co-directed the creative platform WHISTLE, which advocates for the safety, health and wellbeing of dancers. Frances Chiaverini’s artistic work has been supported by, among others, the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and Migros Kulturprozent as part of M2ACT Zürich.

A person lifts another high into the air, their arm raised triumphantly, in a tall, bright room.© Nadine Fraczkowski