CORPS DE BALLET

In dance a “corps de ballet” is the group of dancers who are not principal dancers or soloists. It is the equivalent to the chorus in opera. They perform the group scenes of a ballet and often support the principal dancers and soloists in the background. The dancers of a corps de ballet perform their steps in unison.

Their unity makes them unique and powerful.

The workshop, with irony and joyfulness, will lead to create a “CORPS DE BALLET” [BODY OF THE BALLET] in the meaning of a BODY OF THE COMMUNITY.

The corps de ballet usually moves in unison, in a synchronized way, but we will enhance the body and its multiple varieties, by highlighting the beauty of contrast within a collective body.

How can we be a body of the ballet today?
What does it mean to be both a body and a community?

About the choreographer:

Silvia Gribaudi is an Italian choreographer who also specialises in performing arts in general.
Since 2004 she has focused her research on the social impact of bodies, having set at the centre of her choreographic language the comic element and the relationship between audience and performers. Award-winner of the Premio Giovane Danza D’Autore with her piece A CORPO LIBERO (2009), finalist at the Premio UBU with R.OSA (2017), winner of the Premio CollaborAction#4 2018-2019 and of the Premio DANZA&DANZA 2019 with the piece GRACES, in 2021 she presented MONJOUR (2021), produced by Torinodanza Festival, Teatro Stabile del Veneto and Brussels’s Les Halles de Schaerbeek.

Her latest show GRAND JETÉ is co-produced by MM Contemporary Dance Company (IT), 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), National Theatre Brno within Theatre World Festival Brno (CZ). Silvia Gribaudi is an associate artist at the Gymnase CDCN (Roubaix – France) for the three-year period 2024- 2026.