Cristina Crippa is an interdisciplinary artist, movement and art teacher. She studied sculpture and paintingat Brera Arts Academy of Milan. While at the Academy, she studied different kinds of dance until falling in love with contact improvisation, composition and improvisation.
The curiosity and passion for dance and movement shifted her attention from the canvas to the body and its relation with the environment and people. Her interdisciplinary nature leads her to experience art through different channels and means of expression: actions and performances, dance, photography,
drawings, video and installations. The center of her investigation is body-mind, movement, the relationship with space and with each other.

In 2016 and 2017 she was one of the organizer of the "Contact Camp", an international non-profit event that creates and supports a space for the practice and research of contact improvisation. In 2019 she completed the European training of Ilan Lev Method, a bodywork practice developed in Israel from ilan Lev.
She currently teach contact improvisation in Artichoke, professional training in contemporary dance in Milano, and she is invited to teach in different contest in Italy and Europe.

As a performer Cristina has worked with the visual artist Paola Anzichè in Milano and Essen (Pact Zollverein), dance and video artist Tara Rynders with the performance “You and Me” at Earthdance in Massachiussets, Freiburg and Austria, with Alberto Gianfreda in the research group of "reading the territory with art" with a final exhibition at the Mo.Ve, partner of the MAC - Museum of art Contemporary of Lissone and in 2020 as a performer in the remake of Simon Forti's Huddle and Censor performances in the exhibition"Simon Forti. Close to the heart", ICA Foundation, Milan.

During the first Lock Down I create the theoretical and practical course “Artist body and action” which she currently teach and research the birth of performance and focus on visual artists who put the body at the center of their artistic research.
www.cristinacrippa.it

Maestros significativos

K.J.Holmes, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keog , Katie Duck, Ivan Wolf, German Allue, Roberto Lun, Linda Bufali, Paola Lattanzi, Ray Chung, Aaron Brando, Mirva Makinen, Angelika Doni, Joerg Hassman