— C.V.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

  Name: Cristina Leoni-Osion

Profession: Freelance Artist, Facilitator, Educator, Doula, Youth Engagement Specialist

   Nationality: United States + Italy (Berlin-based)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 

A. Teaching and Facilitation Experience

2025 Initiator and Facilitator, Somatic Storytelling & Archiving Workshop for Willkommensklassen

‍ ‍Ruth Cohn Schule, Berlin

2022— Art and Classroom Educator, Berlin Cosmopolitan School - Kindergarten, Berlin

2024 Initiator and Facilitator, tidal bodies: reproductive somatics, various locations, Berlin

2024 Facilitator, Somatic Strategies for Collective Care in Direct Actions, 90mil, Berlin

2023 Movement Improvisation Teacher, Improvisation Through Listening, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

2023 Somatic Workshop Facilitator, Impulstage: Preparing for What, Lake Studios, Berlin

2022-2023 Teaching Artist, InterACT English, various schools, Germany

2022 Dance Teacher,Dance Academy Greifswald, Greifswald, DE 

2022 Somatic Workshop Facilitator, Fantastic Feminist Futures, Strandbad Tegelsee, Berlin

‍ ‍2022 Production Assistant, “ANATOMALIA”, Stand Up Dance, Potsdam, DE

2021 Teaching Artist, Open Space Education, Richmond, VA

‍ ‍2021 Virtual Creative Movement Teacher, Private Clients, Berlin

2020 Youth Program Coordinator, Jackson Ward Youth Peace Team Mutual Aid, Richmond, VA

2020 Director and Curator of “Generation Dream Youth Showcase”, Richmond, VA

2019-2020 Youth Program Director, Richmond Peace Education Center, Richmond, VA (Full Time)

‍ ‍2019 Dance Educator, John Marshall High School, Richmond Public Schools, Richmond, VA

2016-2020 Lead Conflict Resolution Facilitator, Richmond Peace Education Center, Richmond, VA

2018-2019 Logistics and Dramaturgical Consultant, squintproductions, Berlin, DE

2015-2019 Creative Movement Program Developer and Lead Teacher, ART 180, Richmond, VA 

2013-2017 Dance Educator and Choreographer-in-Residence, Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, VA

2014 Creative Movement Teacher, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York, NY

2009-2010 Creative Movement Teacher, St. Andrew’s School, Richmond, VA

B. Community Care and Organizing Experience

‍ ‍2024— Initiator and Facilitator, Abortion Storytelling Circles, Schokofabirk Frauenzentrum, Berlin

‍ ‍2017— Full-Spectrum Doula, private clients, Richmond, New York, Berlin, Virtual

2022-2024 Community Outreach Coordinator, Center for Doula Pathways/Camalo Gaskin, Berlin, DE

2020-2021 Diversion Specialist, Homeless Connection Line, ACTS RVA, Richmond, VA (Full Time)

2018-2021 Volunteer Intake Counselor, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project, Richmond, VA

2017-2021 Collective Member and Full Spectrum Doula, Richmond Doula Project, Richmond, VA

2014-2021 Member, Artists Co-Creating Racial Equity, New York, NY

2014-2021 Member, European Dissent, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, NYC

2020 Phonebanker, Care In Action/National Domestic Workers Alliance, NYC 

2020-2021 Volunteer, Jackson Ward Youth Peace Team Mutual Aid, Richmond, VA

2017-2020 Member, RPEC Advocacy Committee, Richmond, VA 

2016-2018 Facilitator and Founding Member, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Richmond, VA

C. Performance, Choreographic, and Somatic Experience

2024 Assistant Choreographer and Facilitator, Trans/generations, Ringtheater, Berlin, DE

2022 Choreographer and Performer, I was leaving before I arrived, DANCE at PAS, Berlin, DE

2021 Choreographer and Performer, Lucy Dacus, Brando music video, Jimmy Kimmel Live, NYC

2021 Workshop Facilitator, Richmond Black Dance Festival, Virtual, Richmond, VA

2021 Panelist, Arikana Film Festival, Virtual, Richmond, VA

2020 Co-Creator, Entre Puerto Rico y Richmond Film commissioned by ICA-VCU, Richmond, VA

2016-2021 Rehearsal Director and Company Member, Agua Dulce Dance Theater, Richmond, VA

2019-2020 Figure and Portrait Model, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

2017-2018 Performer, Noor Nuyten and Ching-i Chang, Richmond, VA 

2018-2020 Figure Model, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2015-2019 Guest Artist, The Theorists, Austin, TX

2012-2017 Choreographer and Collaborative Member, The Multiple Bodies Project, Chicago, IL

2010-2016 Company Member, The Von Howard Project, New York, NY

2013-2017 Choreographer-In-Residence, ARGS Dance Majors, Petersburg, VA

2013-2015 Figure Model, various artists and venues, New York, NY

2015 Guest Artist, Ani/Malaya Works, New York, NY

2015 Performer, The House of Ia, New York, NY

2014-2015 Guest Artist, Ground Zero Dance Company, Richmond, VA

2013-2015 Company Member, nathantrice/RITUALS Dance Theater, New York, NY

2013-2014 Apprentice, LeeSaar The Company, New York, NY

2013 Choreographer-In-Residence, Chez Bushwick. New York, NY

2011-2013 Company Member, FDANCE

EDUCATION 

A. Academic Education 

2010-2013 B.F.A. in Dance and Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 

    2007-2009 Studies in Dance and Choreography, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA

   2003-2007 Secondary School Diploma, Appomattox Governor’s School for the Arts, Petersburg, Virginia, USA 

B. Full-Spectrum Doula Education

2021 20-hour Virtual Loving Support Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Training, Virtual

2021 Doula Immersion, Center for Doula Pathways, Berlin, DE

2020 Birth and Postpartum Doula Certification, Doula Training International, Virtual

2019 Abortion Doula, Full Spectrum Doula Circle, San Francisco, CA 

2018 National Organizing Conference, National Network of Abortion Funds, Chicago, IL

2018 Decolonizing Birth Conference, Ancient Song Doula Services, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Full Spectrum Doula Training, Ancient Song Doula, Brooklyn, NY 

C. Somatic and Community Care Education

2024 Kleine Schule, Workshop for Integration of Nature-Education for Educators, Spore Initiative, Berlin

2023 Agri/Cultural Practices for Climate Justice Workshop, Oyoun, Berlin

2021 Mental Health First Aid Certification, National Council for Mental Well-being, Virtual

2018 Restorative Justice Circle Facilitation Training, Kay Pranis, Richmond, VA

2016 Trauma Responsiveness Training, Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities, Kigali, Rwanda + Richmond, VA

2016 Conflict Resolution Facilitation Certification, Richmond Peace Education Center, Richmond, VA

2015 Undoing Racism and Community Organizing Training, People’s Institute For Survival and Beyond, NYC

D. Performance and Choreographic Education

‍ ‍ 2021 Immediate Dances, Alexandra Beller, New York, NY

2016-2021 Bomba/Afro-Latin with Alicia Díaz, Richmond, VA

2017 Alexandra Beller/Dances, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, New York, NY

2016 CAMP Residency, Hots Springs, NC 

2015 Pilates Certification, Power Pilates, New York, NY

2013-2016 Gibney Dance Studios, New York, NY

2009/2012 American Dance Festival, Scholarship Recipient, Durham, NC

2010-2013 Virginia Commonwealth University Dance Dept., Richmond, VA

2010 Gaga People/Dancers, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, IL

2009-2010 Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Sasha Waltz and Guests, Berlin, DE 

2008 nathantrice/RITUALS Intensive, Scholarship Recipient, New York, NY

2008 Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts, Scholarship Recipient, Kent, CT

2007-2009 Long Island University Dance Dept., Scholarship Recipient, Brooklyn, NY

2003-2007 Appomattox Reg. Gov. School for the Arts Dance Dept., Petersburg, VA

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