Artistic Director of DAP - comprising Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival DDD and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva since July 2022.
The collaboration with Teatro Municipal do Porto began in 2017, when Cristina Planas Leitão joined the audience mediation team for the period of DDD - Festival Dias da Dança. In September 2018, she was invited, by then Artistic Director Tiago Guedes, to take over the role of General Coordinator of DDD - Festival Dias da Dança for the edition of 2019, on a full-time basis.
In May 2019, she became the Performing Arts Curator at Teatro Municipal do Porto and DDD - Festival Dias da Dança and in 2021 created the artistic project, guidelines and mission of the new CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, in an going research around new formats and ways of sustainable research and and support to artists, with a focus on locality.
Since then, has been Performing Arts curator for the regular season of TM Porto, DDD - Festival and CAMPUS PCS.
In July 2022 was nominated Interim Artistic Director and from February 2023 co-Artistic Director, continuing to curate the whole program.
2024 - 2025
coArtistic Director & Performing Arts Curator
2023-2024
coArtistic Director & Performing Arts Curator
2022 - 2023
Interim Artistic Director & Performing Arts Curator
Performing Arts Curator
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
Curator for dance, theater and interdisciplinary performances - From 2022 onwards is fully responsible for the whole program.
Has developed the programs of RETRATOS / PORTRAITS and DOUBLE TROUBLE / MAKE TROUBLE and has followed several local and national coproductions.
Until season 2021-2022 has been engaged in presenting artists such as: Bibi Dória & Bruno Brandolino, Catarina Miranda, Cleo Diára, Dan Daw, Dançando com a Diferença, Isabél Zuaa & Nádia Yracema, El Conde de Torrefiel, Flávio Rodrigues, Filipe Pereira, François Chaignaud, Gio Loureço, Gosia Wdowik Grupo VÃO, La Horde, Léa Drouet, Lígia Soares Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo, Jan Martes, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Joris Lacoste, Julian Hetzel, (LA)HORDE / Ballet national de Marseille, Lígia Soares, Luísa Saraiva, Marcelo Evelin, Marco Martins, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Philipe Quesne, Raquel André, Rugilė Barzdziukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė & Lina Lapelytė, Sharon Eyal & Guy Behar, Silent Party, Sónia Baptista, Susana Chiocca, Tânia Carvalho.
Eurpean Projects & Networks
Partner member of Moving Borders EU Project and Erasmus+ IMPACT project 2021-2025. Partner member of network Grand Luxe.
Collaborator in the artistic program of Saison Croisée Portugal-France 2021-2022 with La Manufacture - Bordeaux, Centre Pompidou - Paris, Théâtre National de Chaillot - Paris.