Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT)

Artistic Director (2022–2024)
Performing Arts Programmer (2019–2021)

Artistic leadership of one of Southern Europe’s most dynamic municipal performing arts institutions, overseeing multidisciplinary programming across two venues and strengthening its international profile through a clear, artist-centred vision.

Presented leading international artists such as Trajal Harrell, Philippe Quesne, Mette Ingvartsen, Meg Stuart, Jaha Koo, Dries Verhoeven, Faye Driscoll, François Chaignaud, Jan Martens, Julian Hetzel, Marcelo Evelin, Sharon Eyal & Guy Behar, (LA)HORDE / Ballet national de Marseille and Cullberg, alongside a strong presence of Portuguese artists including Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Tânia Carvalho, Raquel André, Catarina Miranda and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha.

Developed curatorial formats such as RETRATOS / PORTRAITS and DOUBLE TROUBLE / MAKE TROUBLE, while accompanying co-productions and long-term artistic processes.

Engaged in international collaborations through Saison Croisée Portugal–France 2021–2022 (Centre Pompidou, Théâtre National de Chaillot, La Manufacture), and as partner in Moving Borders EU Project and Erasmus+ IMPACT Master (2021–2025).

2021-2022 TMP Program I

2021-2022 TMP Program II

2021-2022 TMP Program III

2020-2021 TMP Program I

2020-2021 TMP Program II

2019-2020 TMP Program I

2019-2020 TMP Program II

DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (PT)

Presented artists such as (international): Amanda Piña, Alice Ripoll, Jefta van Dinther, Jeremy Nedd, La Chachi, Lia Rodrigues, Marcelo Evelin, Matija Ferlin, Nala Revlon, Original Bomber Crew, Radouan Mriziga, Wura Moraes, among others.

(Portugal): Catarina Miranda, Diana Niepce, Dori Nigro, Gaya de Medeiros, Marga Alfeirão, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Piny, Vânia Doutel Vaz, among others.

Developed curatorial formats including DDD CAMPUS, 3D and Guests, reinforcing the festival’s focus on research, hybridity and artistic exchange.

CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)

Artistic Director (2022–2024)
Founder, Artistic Project Developer & Programmer (2021–2022)

Conceived, developed and implemented the original artistic project and strategy of CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, inaugurated in 2021 as a residency and artistic research platform dedicated to expanded practices, experimentation and long-term artistic development.

— Designed its functioning system and operational framework, including open calls, residency programmes, daily expanded practices and the research platform Reclamar Tempo, establishing CAMPUS as a key space for artistic inquiry, knowledge exchange and support of artistic trajectories.

— Actively involved in the selection processes as jury member for Artistic Residencies, Technical Residencies and the Reclamar Tempo research programme, while curating the daily expanded practices.

European Projects & Networks — Initiated and represented the organisation within the European project  Future Laboratory  (2021–2025), and joined the Grand Luxe Network, fostering international collaboration, knowledge exchange and transnational artistic development.

Materiais Diversos · festival materiais diversos · FUTURΛ (PT)

Artistic Director (2025–present)

Artistic direction of one of Portugal’s most significant decentralised independent organisations, currently undergoing a renewed and expanded phase. Leading a strategic repositioning that strengthens its international profile while deepening its situated practice and long-term support of artistic trajectories.

Her direction introduces new curatorial formats and organisational dynamics, activating Materiais Diversos as a house-laboratory where programming, research, mediation and artistic accompaniment coexist. Key initiatives include FUTURΛ, a seminar on curatorial practices, and new expanded formats such as materiais adversos (research weekend) and a reconfigured festival structure.

The organisation now operates through two complementary axes — MD Programs and MD Accompanies — reinforcing its role as a resilient, collaborative ecosystem. Rooted in Minde, Alcanena and Lisbon, it supports artists across trajectories while fostering national and international circulation.

Mula (PT)

Founder & Artistic Director (2026–present)

Co-founder, together with Luísa Saraiva, of Mula, an independent and hybrid-disciplinary festival conceived as a convivial, time-based experience unfolding between sunset(s) and sunrise(s). Mula is conceived as a  platform whose future episodes may unfold in different locations, contexts and geographies.

Born in Porto, where its first episode took place in March 2026, the inaugural edition unfolded across approximately 36 hours of continuous proposals, featuring artists such as Ewa Dziarnowska, Liina Magnea, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Ana Rita Xavier, Piny, Dori Nigro & Paulo Pinto and Sepideh Khodarami, among others. Moving between expanded performance, nightlife cultures and hybrid practices, the festival creates site-responsive formats that exist only within its temporality.

Taking place between sunset and sunrise, Mula reclaims the night as a space for preparation, repair, dreaming, leisure, conspiracy and transformation. Celebrating the equinox as a gesture of orientation, it affirms a preference for states of transition and movement, as well as the right to define our own rhythms, choose how we occupy spaces, and restore centrality to the body and to dance. Rooted in independence, experimentation and hospitality, Mula proposes an alternative ecology for gathering: one where artistic and social experiences are inseparable, and where temporary communities emerge through shared time, attention and presence.

Mula reimagines the festival format itself, privileging intensity, hospitality, co-presence and collective experience over conventional models of cultural consumption. Decentralised across multiple venues and spaces, it brings together performance, music, visual arts, discourse, nightlife cultures and social gatherings around food and readings (oracles and texts), activating cities as spaces of encounter, circulation and shared temporality. Mula consciously marks the passage of time, defining encounter and conviviality as central values of artistic practice.

SUPERNOVÆ (PT / ES)

2025–Present — Founder & Artistic Director

Co-founder, with Natalia Álvarez Simó, of SUPERNOVÆ, an international curatorial and consultancy platform dedicated to contemporary performing arts. Through SUPERNOVÆ, they develop strategic visions, curate programmes and support cultural institutions and artists in processes of artistic repositioning and transformation, with a strong commitment to inclusion, sustainability, cultural exchange and collaborative practices.

Selected collaboration: Cullberg (Sweden)

ArtEZ University of the Arts

Senior Visiting Lecturer, Artistic Research Chair Coordinator & Mentor — 3rd Year BA Dance Artist (2024–present)

Coordinator of the Artistic Research module, a year-long research strand within the third-year BA Dance Artist curriculum, supporting students in the development of singular artistic trajectories through mentoring, lectures and research-oriented methodologies. Working closely with artistic coaches and faculty, Cristina guides students through processes of experimentation, reflection, writing and public presentation, fostering artistic research as an embodied and practice-based mode of inquiry.

The programme has evolved into an ongoing curatorial and pedagogical practice: creating frameworks in which the unknown may emerge, where questions are sustained before conclusions are expected, and where young artists are encouraged to remain with their curiosities long enough for the unforeseen to take shape. Grounded in presence, relationality and critical thinking, the module values uncertainty not as something to be resolved prematurely, but as a condition to be inhabited and explored, understanding artistic research as a sustained practice of attention, articulation and discovery.