Lisa Giobbi is an American

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

and aerial artist. She is the artistic director of the Lisa Giobbi Movement Theatre which she founded in 1991. She has performed with and choreographed for the

MOMIX MOMIX is a dance company based in Washington, Connecticut, founded in 1981 by choreographer Moses Pendleton. MOMIX developed out of work Pendleton did for a celebration of Erik Satie at the Paris Opera in 1978. The company is named after a solo ...

and

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dance companies.

Career

A graduate of Juilliard, she joined

in 1983 where she collaborated and performed with

Moses Pendleton Moses Pendleton (born March 28, 1949) is a choreographer, dancer and the artistic director of MOMIX. MOMIX is a dance company that he formed in 1981 as an offshoot of the Pilobolus, which he had co-founded while a senior at Dartmouth College in 1 ...

for eight years. She choreographed and performed with

, creating a number of pieces including ''Television'', ''Return to Maria La Baja'' and ''Lands Edge'' which remain in the repertoire. She worked with Marta Clarke, including the ''Garden of Earthly Delights'', ''Vienna: Lusthaus'', ''Wienna: Lusthaus Revisited'', ''Endangered Species'' and ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream''. Giobbi founded the Lisa Giobbi Movement Theatre while working on circus arts and dance with Circus Flora and working as staff choreographer for the Big Apple Circus. Giobbi performed aerial work most notably at the Joyce Theater in New York,

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in Milan and

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in Venice, as well as the Boston Dance Umbrella Aerial festivals, the Frequent Flyers Festival and the Santa Rosalia Festival in

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. She was a three-time guest artist of the

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in Berlin. Giobbi has created choreography for films including '' What Dreams May Come'' and ''Temptesta'' and for independent films, music videos, commercials, fashion shows (

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2000, 2001 and 2003 runway shoes), benefits, television specials, cabaret theatre, gala presentations and rock concerts (2005 Amsterjam). Her

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theatrical productions include David Rabe’s ''Those the River Keep'' and

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’s ''Industrial Symphony #1''. Giobbi has been nominated for

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choreographer awards for videos such as

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and

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’s "Hold Me Down", among others. Her work has been presented in Variety Teatre at the Wintergarten Variety in

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, the Apollo-Theater Düsseldorf, and the Friedrichbau in

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. She has toured excerpts from the ''Falling Angels'' show throughout Europe in collaboration with the British band

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in ''The Tiger Lilies Circus''.

Personal life

Giobbi is married to the actor Paul Guilfoyle; they have a daughter called Snowden and live in

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References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giobbi, Lisa American choreographers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Contemporary dance choreographers Living people Juilliard School alumni