Cristina Kristal Rizzo is a dancemaker based in Florence. Her professional career began in New York, where she graduated from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and attended the studios of Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. She has been active on the Italian contemporary dance scene since the early 1990s and is one of the founders of the historic Kinkaleri collective, with which she actively collaborated until 2007, traversing the international performance scene and receiving numerous awards.

Since 2008 Cristina Rizzo has been pursuing an autonomous path of choreographic production, directing her research towards a theoretical reflection with a strong dynamic impact, aimed at regenerating the act of creation and opening up reflections on the present time, establishing herself as one of the main personalities of Italian choreography. Her creations include: TOCCARE The white dance, ULTRAS sleeping dances, VN Serenade, Hypernating, Prélude, ikea (at FIT in 2015), BoleroEffect.

In addition to the touring of her performances, she is involved in an intense activity of experimental proposals, conferences, workshops, advanced training and theoretical writing. As a guest choreographer she has created for major opera companies and institutions, including Teatro Comunale di Firenze/Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Balletto di Toscana, Aterballetto, LAC Lugano, MUSEION Bolzano, Museo Pecci Prato, Museo del 900 Firenze, MACRO/PalaExpo Roma. She collaborated in the creation of the special project La Piattaforma della Danza Balinese – The Balinese Dance Platform for Santarcangelo Festival 14 and 15 and the 21st edition of Live Arts Week with Xing. Since 2019, she has an active part in the Sup de Sub Campus coaching project, aimed at very young non-professionals from the banlieu of Marseille and Paris.

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ikea
2015 Edition
12.10 – 18.10