Intensive Nurishing the Roots: Keep Nancy Stark Smith´s Material Alive (Il Mulino / Tuscany, Italy)
with Cristina Crippa and Angela-Mara Florant
Date Intensive: 24.-27.04.2025
Place: SPAZIO IL MULINO, Il Mulino (Tuscany, Italy)
𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙖 (𝙄𝙩)
She 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 contactimprovisation, 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.
Cristina is also an Ilan Lev Method pratictioner (bodywork) and she is part of Effetto Larsen, a group that use relational art for developing a sense of community.
Learn more: IG: cristicrips, www.cristinacrippa.it