Born and raised in Italy, educated in Sweden ad the US, after a dance carrier in Swiss and German theaters, moved to NY to focus on contemporary dance studies and work with choreographer Douglas Dunn. Back in Europe in the early 80’s she taught extensively in Germany, Austria and Stockholm, Sweden where she ‘83 settled and has been resident ever since.
Cristina began to choreograph in the mid 90’s and ´98 founded the independent dance company ccap for which she has produced over 30 works. Her ccap work tours nationally on a regular basis and has been internationally acclaimed in New York, Helsinki, Oslo, Paris, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, Vienna, Munich, and other cities in Russia, Italy, England, and the US.

After more then two decades of continuously innovative work, Cristina has gained the indisputable position as one of Sweden’s foremost choreographers. Her choreography is marked by clarity, stringency, and precision, but also by its complexity and strong physicality. Cristina’s interest lies in structure and disorder. She works with units and links, task and restrictions, rules, games, logic, counter-logics, and hypothetical strategies: to resist habit and unfold potentiality, to induce form and unleash other meaning, to construct and question, examine and respond. Cristina’s choreography acts as critical discourse and therefore demands, but also generates attention, and participation.

Cristina's interest for theory and mediality marks all of her work, on stage and beyond. To practice, investigate and develop these interests she has produced the festivals Talking Dancing (1997) and Movement is a Woman (2002), the research projects t.lab (2004) and after cover (2009-2011) as well as edited and published the dance anthology Choreographies (2008). Cristina works also with film, such as BODY-interrupted (2001), a commission by Tate Modern, and the worldwide acclaimed in-(site)sight and 2soon (2005), as well as with digital technologies, such as in the productions on point(s)only (2007) and decover (2008). Currently embarking a longterm investigation of text, firstly by the upcoming production textduo.

Cristina has choreographed for a number of institutional dance companies, such as Skånes Dansteatern, Helsinki City Theatre, Nye Carte Blanche, Stockholm 59North, and the GöteborgBalett. And has joined international projects in England and South Africa as well as choreographed for several theater productions at the City Theater in Stockholm.

Cristina is also an appreciated teacher and lecturer. Both based on the notion of choreography and technique as one and the same metaspecific yet interdisciplinary practice of critical thought. Which she as head of the choreography program at the university of Dance in Stockholm (2000-2002) implemented in the pilot program dot. And taught at ImpulsTanz Vienna, SEAD Salzburg, Skolen for Moderne Dans in Copenhagen.

Since 2008 professor of Choreography at the university of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, where she 2009-2011 run research project after cover and current Weaving Labour of Politics with the support of the Swedish Research Council and in coproduction with ccap.

Cristina has received a ten years artist grant (1996-2006) and in 2002 a life lasting artist income guarantee. In June 2006 she was awarded with the Cullberg Prize.