Bactéria

Choreography

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[O SISTEMA]

UM [unimal]

FM [featuring mortuum]

bear me

The Very Boring Piece

The Very Delicious Piece

Pedagogy & Mentoring

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Since 2010, Cristina has been developing and sharing pedagogical practices that foster somatic awareness, autonomous learning, intersectional embodiment and critical thinking. Her teaching approaches the body as a site of knowledge, imagination and transformation, integrating movement practice with reflection, artistic inquiry and lived experience. Certified in Flying Low & Passing Through and Hatha Yoga, she draws from diverse embodied practices in both her teaching and choreographic processes.

She currently coordinates the Artistic Research module within the third-year BA Dance Artist curriculum at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). This role centres on accompanying students in the development of singular artistic trajectories, supporting the articulation of personal practices, research questions and emerging authorship. The module combines individual mentoring, lectures, critical dialogue and research-oriented methodologies, creating a framework in which students can connect practice, reflection and experimentation while shaping their own artistic language.

Cristina has taught extensively in higher education and professional contexts across Europe. She was a regular guest lecturer at Codarts University for the Arts (Rotterdam) and a faculty member at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem) from 2011 to 2022 within the BA Dance Performance programme. She has also worked as guest choreographer and teacher at Amsterdam University of the Arts / MTD and coordinated the internship programme for several years, at Ginasiano Escola de Dança, in Portugal.

Alongside workshops and formal teaching, Cristina regularly mentors artists, offering dramaturgical support, strategic guidance and discourse development. She often works as an outside eye for creative processes and is invited to give talks and lectures on curatorial practices, artistic leadership and cultural organisation.

Areas of Practice

Somatic and embodied movement practices
Artistic research methodologies
Dance and performance training
Intersectional embodiment practices
Mentoring and outside eye support
Dramaturgy and discourse development
Curatorial and organisational pedagogy
Talks, lectures and professional development

→ Tantsu ruum

→ CCN Rillieux-la-Pape

Germany

→ Contemporary Dance School Hamburg

→ Folkwang Universität der Künste

→ K3 –Zentrum fur Choreographie

→ Marameo

→ MD Kollektiv

→ Theater Pforzheim

Ireland

→ Dance Ireland

Italy

→ Dance Italia

→ Open FLR

Poland

→ Stary Browar

Portugal

→ ACE – Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo

→ Balleteatro

→ c-e-m

→ Companhia Dançando com a Diferença

→ Companhia Instável

→ Conservatório de Música de Coimbra

→ Estágio de Dança de Aveiro

→ Estúdios Victor Córdon

→ Fórum Dança

→ Ginasiano Escola de Dança

→ Oficina Zero

→ SummerLab

Slovenia

→ Plesna Izba Maribor

Spain

→ Centro Danza Canal

Sweden

→ Cullberg

→ Norrdans

The Netherlands

→ ArtEZ (BA Dance Performance)

→ Moderne Theaterdans (BA Dance Performance)

→ Expanded Contemporary Dance (BA Dance Performance)

→ Codarts (BA Dance Performance)

→ Henny Jurriens Stichting

→ Dansateliers Rotterdam

→ Danstraining Brabant

→ de Stilte, Breda

→ Circle, Rotterdam

United States of America

→ Mark Morris Dance Center,

FLYING LOW & PASSING THROUGH

RADICAL SOFTNESS • workshop

CALM AS A BOMB • somatic YOGA practice

Dramaturgy & Collaborations

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2026

Sugar Rush by Marco da Silva Ferreira for Tanz Mainz

Dramaturgy

2024 – 2025

F*cking Future by Marco da Silva Ferreira

Dramaturgy

2017 – 2022

Brother by Marco da Silva Ferreira

Performer

agenda – Performed more than 70 times internationally including venues such as TM Porto, São Luiz TM, Théâtre des Abesses (Paris), Charleroi Danses (Bruxelles), Le Quartz (Brest), Dansens Hus (Oslo), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Théâtre Bastia (Corsica), Festival Interplay (Torino), Julidans (Amsterdam), etc.

2021

POROMECHANICS by Catarina Miranda

Performer

2015 + 2021

REI POSTO REI MORTO by Catarina Miranda

Performer

2015

The Porto Sessions by Meg Stuart / Mezzanine

Performative research

2014

Gregory Maqoma & Companhia Instável

Rehearsal Director