I am a dancer/maker working at the fulcrum of aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial dance. I collaborate with the elements, improvising through subtle listening and adaptive composition
Kriss is a dancer, site-responsive artist, director, and performer currently living in unceded Ohlone Territory (Bay Area). Their artistic practice traverses contemporary dance, contact improvisation, vertical dance, and aquatic dance. Collaborating intimately with wild spaces and the more than human, they work with the technologies of film, installation, and live performance to provide both intimate and accessible immersive experiences. Kriss’s unending curiosity and sensitivity is fueled by the questions, how do we organize and stay available in response to the unknown?
How can disorientation offer us practices in re-membering?
Kriss has performed in collaboration with Amelia Rudolph, Diana Lara, Mendocino Dance Project, Cié Lala, Scott Wells & Dancers, James Graham and Dancers, Dirt & Glitter, KD MovingGround, Piñata Collective, Iu-Hui Chua, and Artship. Currently they freelance as a dancer, director, and teacher as well as advocate for safe housing for survivors of domestic violence at Gum Moon in SF Chinatown.
Kriss’s creative process has been inspired by working with Anna and Daria Halprin through the Tamalpa Life Art Process and Tom Bentley-Fisher in the Yat-Bentley acting method. Kriss studied contemporary dance at Tanzfabrik Schule in Berlin (2021) and holds a B.S. in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior from UC Davis (2014). Their choreography and teaching has been shared in the United States, Mexico, and Europe, presenting work at festivals, theaters, and exhibition spaces such as Été Métropolitain (Bordeaux), Les Avant-Postes (Bordeaux), A.PART Festival (Berlin), Hošek Contemporary (Berlin), Holds the Moon Quan Yin Water Temple (Oakland), 4X4 (Tijuana), and Yerba Buena Gardens (San Francisco), and The Salesforce Tower (San Francisco).