Cristina Caprioli (Brescia, 1953) works with dance and choreography of today, spanning over performances, installations, films, publications, seminars, festivals, social interactions and long-term intra-disciplinary research projects. All work performs a critical urgency of thought and action, through precision of sign and complexity of structure, in rigor with increased sensibility, unstable in conviction. All work reaches out to all and one only, by singular encounters in the common. For the thrill of a shared aesthetic experience. For the dancing that stirs the world up and touches our senses.
After decades of dancing in Europe and the US, Caprioli settled in Stockholm where in the 90’s she founded the independent organization ccap, which since is the site of all her work. Through the years she has toured her productions nationally and internationally, taught extensively and choreographed for institutions such as the 59North Dance Company and GöteborgOperans balettkompani. From 2008 to 2013 she was Professor of Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Since then, involved in post-graduate studies and acting as supervisor for PhD students. In 2022 ONCE OVER TIME – a retrospective performed at Tanz im August in Berlin, and Caprioli served as Mercator guest professor at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Caprioli has received several awards, such as the Cullberg price (2008), the prestigious Gannevik stipendium (2013), and the royal medal Illis quorum meruere labores (2021) “for her extensive and significant work as a dancer and choreographer as well as outstanding contributions in both the Swedish and the international dance field.” 2024 she was honored with La Biennale di Venezia’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance.