Giannina Censi

{{short description|Italian dancer and choreographer}}

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| death_place = Voghera, Italy

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Giannina Censi (1913–1995) was an Italian dancer and choreographer. She is known for her contributions to Danza Futurista (Italian for Futurist dance).{{cite web |title=Censi Giannina |url=https://www.enciclopediadelledonne.it/biografie/giannina-censi/ |website=enciclopedia delle donne |access-date=1 July 2024 |language=it}}

Censi was born on 25 January 1913 in Milan.{{cite web |title=Censi, Giannina |url=https://cim.mart.tn.it/cim/pages/lemma.jsp?id=1704 |website=Mart Rovereto |access-date=30 June 2024}} 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.{{cite web |title=Giannina Censi. Danzare il Futurismo |url=https://www.electa.it/en/product/gabriella-censi-danzare-il-futurismo/ |website=Electa |access-date=30 June 2024}}

In 1931 the Galleria Pesaro de Milan presented her choreographed Aerodance (based on the concept of Aeropaintering).{{cite web |title=Giannina Censi |url=https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/giannina-censi/ |website=AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes |access-date=30 June 2024}}

Censi died in Voghera on 5 May 1995.

In 2021 her work was in the exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.{{cite book |title=Women in abstraction |date=2021 |publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Thames & Hudson Inc |location=London : New York, New York |isbn=978-0500094372 |pages=170}} In 2022 the 59th Venice Biennale included Censi's work in the Seduction of the Cyborg.{{cite web |last1=Giannina Censi |first1= |title=Biennale Arte 2022 |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022/seduction-cyborg/giannina-censi |website=La Biennale di Venezia |access-date=30 June 2024 |language=en |date=14 April 2022}}