Flavia Ghisalberti is a multi-disciplinary artist, director and choreographer of Italian and Swiss descent. She had periodic exhibitions and and created poetry sound performances with with self-made instruments from 1994-1996. Since 1998 she has worked extensively with Butoh dance. Flavia's art explores the limits of the body and the mind and what they are willing to endure. Her Butoh style of primarily independent of a particular Butoh school or master even though Masaki Iwana was an important teacher for her. She co-founded the Butoh group In Between in 2003 and co-founded the international project Limits in 2008. She is director of the bi-annual festival Butoh-Off since 2010 which is now a tri-national project with Freiburg and Strasbourg. She performs and teaches through Europe, Russia and the United States.
