An Interview with Frances Chiaverini
Frances Chiaverini started her dancing career with ballet during her teenage years, dancing with renowned dance companies such as Balanchine Dance Company and the Pittsburg Ballet Theater. There on, she went to Julliard to proceed training in American modern dance studying techniques of Martha Graham, Jose Limon, and Madison Taylor. When she graduated from Julliard in 2003, she moved to the Netherlands and worked with the Netherlands Dance Theater. Couple of years later, she stepped back from the career of dancing to explore other passions. She moved back to her hometown of Pittsburg and started teaching ballet and modern dance in schools, universities, and ballet schools after working as a waitress for three months. At the age of twenty-four, she learned circus arts and aerial arts. Then, she attended a film school and made her first short film a month later. Afterwards, she was offered a job in New York, dancing. Following her love for the city, she moved to New York as a freelancer while working for the company that offered her to come to New York. In 2012, she moved to LA to dance for an year, then in 2013, she moved to Frankfurt to work with William Forsythe and his company. When his company closed in 2015, she started to work on her own work with her colleagues as well as on others’ work such as with Trajal. Recently, she was awarded a grant from the city of Frankfurt to develop her own work examining the relationship between the genius and the muse.