Chrissy Nelson
Lecturer
Dance

听University Theatre Building, C331

Chrissy Nelson is a dance artist, physical therapist, certified Pilates instructor, and movement educator.听Her current research involves waiting.听And weighting.听And trying to recall moments from Spring Vacation 2006 while staying present in today.听And flamingos, and the art of standing on one leg.听Since living in CO, Nelson has performed with Helander Dance Theater, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, 3rd Law Dance/Theater, kim olson/sweet edge, and Tumblebones, and in works created by Onye Ozuzu, Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser, Gesel Mason, Mary Wohl Haan, Joanna Rotkin, Gwen Ritchie,听and Ondine Geary.听Enjoying the communities that arise from intense study, Nelson has taught and facilitated CI at EarthDance, Contact Improvisation Iowa,听Luther College, and the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival.听She is a lecturer听at 精品SM在线影片 where she has taught Dance Improvisation,听Choreography, First-Year Seminar, Injury Prevention, and Somatic Conditioning,and serves as the Co-Director of the Theater & Dance Wellness Program. Highly influenced by Movement Fundamentals, and its founder, Jane Hawley, Nelson values CI as a foundation to the dance artist鈥檚 practice, and incorporates its principles into all of her movement-based teaching.听In addition to her teaching, Chrissy also directs The Field | Boulder, has collaborated frequently with sound and visual artists, and has performed original works in PA, NY and CO.听Chrissy received her MFA in dance from the University of Colorado听Boulder, with a secondary emphasis in both Somatics and Improvisation in Performance.听She received her MPT from Ohio University in 1998.