about bio | artist statement | resume in pdf format: performance, teaching, administrative Krista DeNio is a choreographer, movement theater performer/director, and dance/theater educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. While based in the San Francisco Bay Area (1997-2007), she created and produced her own work, and collaborated/performed with Jo Kreiter and Flyaway productions, Kim Epifano/ Epiphany Productions, Tanya Calamoneri/Allen Willner (violent dwarf) , Angus Balbernie/ 1000GreyBirds, Gabriel Todd/ freaksoultribe, Rachael Lincoln, Susannah Martin, Joan Bruemmer and many others. She has presented and collaborated in performance work at venues including: ODC (Oberlin Dance Collective), Dance Mission, The Marsh, 848 Community Space, Luna Sea, Jon Simms Center for the Performing Arts, SF In the Street Theatre Festival, CELLspace, Venue 9, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (In the Gardens Festival and the Forum), SOMARTS, 8th Street Studios/Moment's Notice, Brady Street Dance Center, Z Space, the MilkBar, Danceground Keriac, CounterPULSE, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Boulder International Fringe Festival, The Dairy Center for the Arts (Boulder), TanzFabrik (Berlin, Germany), L'Orangerie (Cologne, Germany), CESTA (Tabor, Czech Republic), The Brick (NY Clown Festival) and others. In 2002, she co-founded the Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) at the New College of California in San Francisco, where she has served as faculty (2002-04, 06-07), Administrative Director (2002-03) and Outreach Director (2006-07). Krista received her BA in Dance/Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley (1996), and her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University (2006). She also trained in ACT's (American Conservatory Theater) Summer Training Congress. Her training includes: Modern Dance, Post-Modern release technique, Aerial Dance, Afro-Cuban folkloric, Clowning, Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Body Mind Centering , Viewpoints, Suzuki Method, Action Theater, Grotowski-based acting work and Roy Hart Vocal work, among others. She has studied with: Kathleen Hermesdorf, Stephanie Maher, Kim Epifano, Jo Kreiter, Scott Wells, Jess Curtis, Leigh Evans, Shinichi Koga, Sri Louise, Rhiannon, Teatro America (Havana, Cuba), Michael Dempsey, Jon Fisher, Ruth Zaporah, Cassie Terman, Sten Rudstrom, Moshe Cohen, Angus Balbernie, Leigh Fondakowski, Moises Kaufman (Tectonic Theater Project, Meredith Monk and Company (The House), SITI Co., Wendell Beavers, Erika Berland, Barbara Dilley, Stephan Wangh, Ethelyn Friend, The South Wing (Kameron Steele) and others. Most recent choreography credits include: The Man of La Mancha, directed by Jon Tracy (San Francisco Playhouse); Three Seconds In the Key, by Deb Margolin, directed by Leigh Fondakowski (San Francisco Playhouse); Onward, a solo for Ashley Hayes; Casa Cushman, a workshop production of Leigh Fondakowski's play in development (New York Theater Worskhop); Bayard Rustin, a workshop production of Laura Eason/Paul Stovall's play in development. Most recent directing credits include: A Light In My Soul/ Una Luz En Mi Alma , an interview-based play produced by Working Classroom, in collaboration with Tectonic Theater Project (National Hispanic Cultural Center), August 2008; Pavlova (co-directed), an excerpt of a new work-in-progress by paige starling sorvillo/blindsight (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Forum), May 2008. Most recent performing credits include: Sally:MIA, one of Krista's movement-theater works, which was produced by the TerraNOVA collective and P.S. 122 (NYC) as a part of the soloNOVA festival (June 2008) and previously at CounterPULSE (www.counterpulse.org) in San Francisco (February 2007), where she was a 2006-07 Winter Artist-In-Residence. Krista also danced in Katsura Kan's Curious Fish, at Chashama (NYC) May 2008. Her current performance project in development, limblimb (on the art of being animal) , is being developed in San Francisco, New York and across the country. Upcoming workshops, residencies and investigation sites, include: CounterPULSE, San Francisco, CA (May 2008), Earthdance (June 2008), and Madrid, NM (July 2008), with project development and premiere to take place in Brooklyn/ NYC (2008-2009), followed by a West-Coast Premier. limblimb seeks substantial residency and development support, for one to three years, with the intention of a resulting bi-coastal performance production. © Krista DeNio