Artist and educator, Cristina Goletti is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance department at University of Texas El Paso and is President for the World Dance Alliance Americas. In 2007 she co-founded Legitimate Bodies Dance Compa...More
Artist and educator, Cristina Goletti is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance department at University of Texas El Paso and is President for the World Dance Alliance Americas. In 2007 she co-founded Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, which toured extensively in Europe. Between 2013-2017 she worked as full-time professor and Chair of the Arts Department at Universidad De Las Americas Puebla. She co-directed the festival Performatica, and was a finalist in the 4x4 Tijuana choreographic contest. cristina has presented papers at several conferences in the US and Latin America, and has created original choreographies for universities like UTSA, Purdue University, Texas State and Texas A&M Corpus Cristi. Her research interest lie in dance dramaturgy, interdisciplinary performance and gender studies. She hold an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and trained at the London Contemporary Dance School.
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