Giannina Censi | |
Birth Date: | 25 January 1913 |
Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
Death Place: | Voghera, Italy |
Movement: | Danza Futurista |
Giannina Censi (1913 – 1995) was an Italian dancer and choreographer. She is known for her contributions to Danza Futurista (Italian for Futurist dance).[1]
Censi was born on 25 January 1913 in Milan.[2] She studied classical dance under Lyubov Yegorova, as well as Indian dance with Uday Shankar. Censi went on to study the works of Italian Futurist artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.[3]
In 1931 the Galleria Pesaro de Milan presented her choreographed Aerodance (based on the concept of Aeropaintering).[4]
Censi died in Voghera on 5 May 1995.[2]
In 2021 her work was in the exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.[5] In 2022 the 59th Venice Biennale included Censi's work in the Seduction of the Cyborg.[6]