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Kim Savarino is an actor and choreographer. Favorite projects include Andrei Serban’s THE TROJAN WOMEN, Third Rail Projects’ immersive hit THEN SHE FELL, ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby’s film THE BEGUILING (TIFF, SXSW Official Selection) and the Dan Safer/Chuck Mee/GJR collaboration ARISTOTLE THINKS AGAIN. Kim is a proud member of La MaMa’s Obie award-winning Great Jones Rep Company. She’s worked with artists including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/ROSAS, Romeo Castelluci, Miguel Gutierrez, Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. She associate-choreographed THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS (The Public) and THE GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN (Soho Playhouse), and her creative work has received support from MANCC’s Forward Dialogues Lab, EstroGenius Festival, and Arts@Renaissance. She studied dance at FSU and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and acting with Terry Knickerbocker. Kim is a Chinese lion dancer in her spare time and lives in Brooklyn with a 19lb black cat.
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Kim Savarino is an actor and choreographer working in film, commercial theater, and experimental performance.
Kim has choreographed site-specific dance and theater works in spaces ranging from traditional stages to (once) an old bathroom in a former mental hospital. Kim associate-choreographed THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS (The Public) and THE GHOST OF JOHN MCCAIN (Soho Playhouse) with Sunny Min-Sook Hitt, and her creative work has received support from MANCC’s Forward Dialogues Lab, EstroGenius Festival, and Arts@Renaissance.
Kim is a proud member of La MaMa’s Obie award-winning Great Jones Rep Company and Third Rail Projects. Favorite performance projects include Andrei Serban’s THE TROJAN WOMEN, Third Rail Projects’ immersive hit THEN SHE FELL, ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby’s film THE BEGUILING (TIFF, SXSW Official Selection) and the Dan Safer/Chuck Mee/GJR collaboration ARISTOTLE THINKS AGAIN. She’s worked with artists including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/ROSAS, Romeo Castelluci, Miguel Gutierrez, Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.
Kim supports artists through work with the MAP Fund and has worked in various capacities as a researcher, facilitator, and moderator with Arts Action Research, Dance/NYC, and the Doris Duke Foundation, among others. She was a member of the WOW Project’s inaugural Bridging Futures Cohort, a 2018 Dance/USA DILT mentee, and served as co-chair of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee.
As a teacher, Kim works with students to develop their own creative processes and work; she’s taught at Florida State University, MIT, and the Terry Knickerbocker Studio. She studied dance at FSU (BFA with Honors, Summa Cum Laude) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and completed a two-year Meisner acting program with Terry Knickerbocker (Notable Student, Graduating Class Speaker).
Kim is Chinese-Italian-American and grew up in Southern California and West Virginia. She’s a Chinese lion dancer with the WOW Project and lives in Brooklyn with a 19lb black cat.
