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.

Since 2024, she has coordinated the Artistic Research module within the third-year BA Dance Artist programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL). Her pedagogical approach mirrors her curatorial practice: artist-centred, research-driven and attentive to the development of singular voices. Through mentoring, critical dialogue and research methodologies, she supports students in articulating personal practices, developing authorship and connecting artistic experimentation with broader social, political and cultural questions.

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

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,

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

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

2014

SEVERAL by Vera Mota & Ghuna X

Performer

2013

Experience # 1 by Isabelle Schad

Performer

2012

Nil-City by Flávio Rodrigues / Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte

Performer

2012-2014

Hofesh Shechter & Companhia Instável

Rehearsal Director

2012

Exit 211-A by Elisabeth Lambeck

Performer

2012

A Divine Threesome by Gabriella Maiorino

Rehearsal Director & Choreography assistant

2012

Into the Out by Jasmina Krizaj

Performative research

2012

Encounter Series / DansLab

Performative research

2010

IOVIODIO by Gabriella Maiorino

Rehearsal Director & Choreography assistant

2010

Passing Through series by David Zambrano

Performer

2010

Day Project by Clarice Lima

Performer

2010

Je bent al bijna dood by Vloeistof

Performer

2009

Love_About by Gabriella Maiorino

Rehearsal Director & Choreography assistant

2009

kunikuli by Gabriella Maiorino

Performer

2008

ZOO by Gabriella Maiorino

Performer

2007

Cruel by Gabriella Maiorino

Performer

2006

Footprint by Katarzyna Marcinkowska

Performer