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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
2026–present Initiator and Host, Tidal Bodies: Imagining New Worlds Through Our Reproductive Stories, Curiosity Circles, The Collective Imagination Practice, Berlin / Online
2026 Initiator and Educator, Remix, Record: Ein somatisches und künstlerisches Storytelling-Projekt, Ruth-Cohn-Schule, Berlin
2025 Initiator and Facilitator, Somatic Storytelling & Archiving Workshop for Willkommensklassen, Ruth-Cohn-Schule, Berlin
2024 Initiator and Facilitator, tidal bodies: reproductive somatics, various locations, Berlin
2024 Facilitator, Somatic Strategies for Collective Care in Direct Actions, 90mil, Berlin
2024 & 2025 Assistant Choreographer and Facilitator, Trans/generations, Ringtheater, Berlin
2023 Movement Improvisation Teacher, Improvisation Through Listening, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
2023 Initiator and Facilitator, Preparing to See Each Other: A Somatic Practice of Recognition, Impulstage: Preparing for What?, Lake Studios, Berlin
2022-2025 Art and Classroom Educator, Berlin Cosmopolitan School – Kindergarten, Berlin
2022–2023 Teaching Artist, InterACT English, various schools, Germany
2022 Dance Teacher, Dance Academy Greifswald, Greifswald, DE
2022 Co-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, Generation Dream Youth Showcase, Richmond, VA
2019–2020 Youth Program Director, Richmond Peace Education Center, Richmond, VA
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–present Initiator and Facilitator, Abortion Storytelling Circles, Schokofabrik Frauenzentrum, Berlin
2022–present Community Outreach Coordinator, Center for Doula Pathways / Camalo Gaskin, Berlin, DE
2017–present Full-Spectrum Doula, private clients, Richmond, New York, Berlin, Virtual
2020–2021 Diversion Specialist, Homeless Connection Line, ACTS RVA, Richmond, VA
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 & 2025 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, 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 Arts, Richmond, VA
2018–2020 Figure Model, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2017–2018 Performer, Noor Nuyten and Ching-i Chang, Richmond, VA
2015–2019 Guest Artist, The Theorists, Austin, TX
2013–2017 Choreographer and Collaborative Member, The Multiple Bodies Project, Chicago, IL
2013–2017 Choreographer-in-Residence, ARGS Dance Majors, Petersburg, VA
2015 Guest Artist, Ani/Malaya Works and 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
2010–2016 Company Member, The Von Howard Project, New York, NY
EDUCATION
A. Academic Education
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 Trainings International, Virtual
2019 Abortion Doula Training, 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 on Eco-Social Justice and Transformative Pedagogy 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 Dance Studies with Alicia Díaz, Richmond, VA
2017 Alexandra Beller/Dances, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, New York, NY
2016 CAMP Residency, Hot Springs, NC
2015 Pilates Certification, Power Pilates, New York, NY
2013–2016 Gibney Dance, New York, NY
2009 & 2012 American Dance Festival, Scholarship Recipient, Durham, NC
2010–2013 Virginia Commonwealth University Dance Department, Richmond, VA
2010 Gaga People/Dancers, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009–2010 Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Sasha Waltz & 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 Department, Brooklyn, NY
2003–2007 Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts Dance Department, Petersburg, VA