Lisa Giobbi

Who is Lisa Giobbi?

Lisa Giobbi is a choreographer 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 and Pilobolus dance companies. A graduate of Juilliard, she joined MOMIX in 1983 where she collaborated and performed with Moses Pendleton for eight years. She choreographed and performed with Pilobolus, 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 Theatre in NY, La Scala in Milan and La Fenici in Venice, as well as the Boston Dance Umbrella Aerial festivals, the Frequent Flyers Festival and the Santa Rosalia Festival in Palermo. She was a three-time guest artist of the Deutsche Opera in Berlin.