The body

Graduated in Classical ballet and modern dance by SIWA Ballet (São Paulo) and graduated from Largo São Francisco Law School (USP), until a certain point in her life, she believed that writing and dancing were mutually exclusive activities. Later, in London in the context of the MA in Movement Studies, she became interested in techniques forcontemporary dance and somatic movement until finding Butô, which incorporated as a phisical and conceptual art of deconstruction of patterns, whether those of the dance techniques themselves or of society. During this period, she had the opportunity to experience the body practice of artists and movement directors such as Susan Klein, Helen Hislip, Ayse Tashkiran, Vanessa Ewan, Martin Gruber, Minako Seki, Yuko Kaseki, Simei Che. In 2011, she completed an internship as assistant director to German choreographer Sasha Walz during the production of the dance opera Matsukaze. In 2012, she met the artist and Butô master Tetsuro Fukuhara in Rome, with whom she maintains a constant dialogue and partnership.

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From these experiences, she expanded her understanding of movement and writing and developed her own method of body narrative. This method, which is called SACRO-CRANIAL EXPRESSION, has as its core principle the idea that all movement starts from the spinal column and that any movement in limbs or in space is a reflection of this. The sacral-cranial movement changes in quality, shape and consistency depending on the region in the spine in which it originates. This way of thinking about the body is based on the following movement techniques:

Bartenieff's Fundamentals_

Connections between parts of the body, with the environment, space and other people. Based on connectivity patterns of the body, this system suggests a process of rerooting through a regressive visit to movement development patterns, demystifying dualities such as inside and outside, intention and expression, wanting and acting, body and mind... and offers a clear understanding of how the body is our living instrument, always making connections. Through its application to movement, adults have the opportunity to choose to return to remember aspects of their movement that were forgotten when integrated into larger movement patterns in the normal process of growth and development.

BMC – Body Mind Centering_

Consciousness permeates the entire body.In this method, the premise is that the physical body and mind are a complementary unit. The two operate as linked systems to compose the entire body, in a continuous process without chronological or linear order. There is an abandonment of dualistic Cartesianism to understand that movement as well as thought emerge from the body-mind together and at the same time. Created by the American Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen more than 40 years ago, this method prioritizes the understanding and analysis of movement based on the systemic experience of the body and synesthetics of space.

Chakra theory_

Chakras are wheels or energy centers distributed along the vertical axis of the body.(from the base of the spine to the top of the head). There are 7 chakras that connect to 7 elements in the body that alternate in designing behavioral tendencies and different qualities of movement:

• 7 – consciousness (thought) – transformation of “matter” into “social being”

• 6 – intuition (light) – transformation of “matter” into “social being”

• 5 – communication (sound) – transformation of “matter” into “social being”

• 4 – love (air) – transformation of “matter” into “social being”

• 3 – power (fire) – dynamic and light, moving upwards, against gravity

• 2 – sexuality (water) – less movement resistance

• 1 – survival (earth) – least movement resistance

Butoh_

The body expands outside the skin unlimitedly.Butô artists perceive their bodies and the environment as environments in a continuous flow of exchanges. The body is not just what is delimited and contained by the skin. For the vision of existence that permeates Butoh art, this  idea of the body is just an illusion. Butoh body-mind training is a path to achieving a corporeal state of connectivity, in which imaginative processes mediate a dynamic web of relationships between individual and environment, between inside and outside the limits of the skin.

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This is the background with which Christina arrived in the visual arts.