Cristina Tadeo is a dance artist, maker, and designer from the Midwest, working in Albuquerque and Chicago. She has studied contemporary dance forms, somatic practice, and studio art through a variety of formal, deeply experimental, and collaborative processes. Her choreographic work has been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and 3Arts’ Project Program. Cristina was a 2019 artist in residence at PLAYA in Summer Lake, Oregon. Her recent graduate research at the University of New Mexico was focused on the theory and practice of sensation, improvisation, embodied experience, and socially-engaged performance forms. She holds a BFA in Dancemaking from Columbia College Chicago. 

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Since 2010, Cristina has supported a multitude of artists and mission-driven organizations including collaborations in print and sound design, video documentation, development, and project management as a professional arts administrator, designer, and grant writer.