Christina Carter (she/her) is a Black-Filipinx choreographer and performance artist based in Oakland, California.
She utilizes live performance that vacillates between set work and improvisatory score which explores identity(ies) embodiment, rest as resistance, and Black/Filipinx food traditions as a means of ancestral connection and grief/trauma processing.
She holds an MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance from Mills College where she was the recipient of the Mary Kinkead Scholarship and The Liatis Foundation Fellowship in Dance. At Mills she performed in works by Shinichi Iova-Koga, Sonya Delwaide, Wanjuru Kamuyu; and trained under Kara Davis, Holley Farmer, Amy O'Neal, and Molissa Fenley.
She utilizes live performance that vacillates between set work and improvisatory score which explores identity(ies) embodiment, rest as resistance, and Black/Filipinx food traditions as a means of ancestral connection and grief/trauma processing.
She holds an MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance from Mills College where she was the recipient of the Mary Kinkead Scholarship and The Liatis Foundation Fellowship in Dance. At Mills she performed in works by Shinichi Iova-Koga, Sonya Delwaide, Wanjuru Kamuyu; and trained under Kara Davis, Holley Farmer, Amy O'Neal, and Molissa Fenley.
