Sara Gaboardi, born in 2001, is an artist, author, and performer.
She began her artistic studies at the Art High School and graduated in scenography in 2020.
Always drawn to performance, she studied musical, modern, contemporary, and hip hop dance from a young age.
Since 2020, she has been training at ArteMente, Higher Education Center for Dance in Milan, where she graduated in 2023. During her studies, she came into contact with various dance languages and national and international artists, and deepened her knowledge of contemporary dance, floorwork, contact improvisation, and Tanztheater, performing in original creations by: Aida Vainieri, Alessio Maria Romano, Silvia Gribaudi, Philippe Kratz, Adriano Bolognino, Marco Laudani, Noemi Della Vecchia, Annalì Rainoldi, Nicola Galli and Constanza Macras.
Since September 2023, she has been a stager and teaching assistant for the ArteMente Center and, with a scholarship, has begun an authorial choreographic residency. She is a production assistant for the creation From C. to You by Giovanni Careccia and a costume designer for the performance An Unhappy Happy Ending by Adriano Bolognino. In 2024, she worked on the staff of Milano Dancing City, a project promoting dance and audience development.
Since September 2024, she has been attending MATRIX PRO, Mandala Dance Company‘s intensive three-month dance training program, where she has had the opportunity to work as a performer for the NVED Nuovi Vettori Evolutivi Danza III Edition project and for the Riti di Passaggio performance at the Corrispondenze Festival directed by Paola Sorressa.
Even during her training years, she developed a passion for creation, starting to work on authorial theater and site-specific projects, embarking on a path towards multidisciplinarity that combines visual arts with performance art.
In 2023, she debuted with her work Sabbia at the Teatro PimOff, subsequently presenting it at events such as DANCE TAZ for Vapore d’Estate in Milan and the Bozzoli Festival 2024 in Rho (MI).
In 2023, she was selected, together with Francesca Pagnini, for Affollate Solitudini TEENS, a project supporting under-25 authorship for the MILANoLTRE Festival with the piece APPARtenenza, winning the Absolute Beginners scholarship which allowed the two authors to expand the project.
In October 2024, she debuted with Can you hear me?, collaborating with Francesca Pagnini, at the MILANoLTRE Festival, and subsequently presented the work as part of the Rassegna DIFFUSA, promoted by Radic’Arte in Pasturana (AL) and the Th!nk P!nk Festival by Fattoria Vittadini, in Milan.
Since 2024, she has been an Associate Artist of the Lost Movement Company.
