Cristina Crippa Is an interdisciplinary artist and passionate movement teacher based in Italy-Ireland. After some years of contemporary dance investigation she discovered her passion for contact improvisation, composition, and improvisation while she was studing sculpture and painting at Brera Arts Academy. Her curiosity shifted her focus from the canvas to body-environment relationships.
She has danced contact since 2010 and In 2013, driven by the desire to know the roots of contact improvisation, she flew to Earthdance (Massachusetts, USA) to study with Nancy Stark Smith and once back in 2014 she started teaching. For 7 years she taught regular contact classes at Artichoke, a contemporary dance program in Milan and she organize and teach in workshops, jam and event in Italy and Europe.
During Lock Down, Cristina created “Artist’s body and action,” exploring performance’s link to visual artists and the body as a core of artistic research that has a political and social impact on society.
Learn more: IG: cristicrips, www.cristinacrippa.it
Contact Improvisation Festival - Classes
The space between
An exploration of gravity, levity, and the quality of touch.I have always been interested in the space between.
Between different fields of investigation, such as visual art, dance, and politics.
Between my body and other bodies, between the sense of gravity and levity that I perceive in my own cells, between my nervous system and other nervous systems, between inside and outside.
When do we feel this space as separate, and when does it become just one?
How can different qualities of touch modify the quality of this space?
What information can we read in this space, and how do we inform it?
How is dance affected by that? Can we let the space between guide our dance?
In this workshop, I would like to invite you to explore this space with me, with fun and joy, and whatever emerges.