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About me

Christine Ceconello is a Brazilian choreographer, dancer and choreographic assistant. She is currently working as rehearsal director at Bern Ballet, besides choreographing her own projects in Europe and South America.

Starting out as a dancer with the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, she also went on to perform with Theatre Castro Alves, De Anima Dance Company, Staatstheater Augsburg, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Stadttheater Hagen, Theatre Heidelberg  and Deutsche Oper Berlin. During this time she danced choreographies by Amanda Miller, Itzik Galili, Mauro Bigonzetti, Cayetano Soto, Peter Chu, Emily Molnar, Mauricio de Oliveira, Mário Nascimento, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Martino Muller, Clébio Oliveira, Andonis Foniadakis and Stephen Shropshire.

As choreographic assistant, she's been helping Martino Muller, Marcelo Misailidis, Ricardo Fernando and Stephen Shropshire with the creation of their work. 

She's been developing her own choreographic works, being nominated for the Prêmio de Dança Cesgranrio 2019/2020 as best choreographer and performer.

In 2021, she founded her project company called "Ceconello Mov Dance Company", having the Premiere with the online work "One on One".

She choreographed for Augsburg and Trier Ballet in Germany and she's been successful in getting subsidies for her own research and creations in Brazil. She choreographed "De Repente, Sonho"in 2022, funded by Prêmio Funarj de Dança, Rio de Janeiro. Her last work, "As Invisíveis",  funded by Cultura Plural Sesi São Paulo, premiered in 2024.

Photo: Gregory Batardon

Creations:

2024

As Invisíveis

Production funded by Edital Cultural Plural Sesi, São Paulo

2023

Echoes of Time

Video production funded by Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, (Hilfsprogramm Dis-Tanzen) des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

Distâncias Incomensuráveis 

Dance Video funded by Ondas da Cultura Funarj, Brazil

2022  

Inevitable Point

Theater Trier/ Germany

De Repente, sonho

Production funded by Prêmio Funarj de Dança, Rio de Janeiro

Que lugar é esse que você ocupa?

Dance Video funded by Ondas da Cultura Funarj, Brazil

2021

Emi

Choreographic Residency in Brazil, part of "Vamos falar sobre"Project

2020

1:1 One on One

Online Performance

O Vazio que nos Une

(Dance Video) Stipend RespirArte, Funarj, Brazil

2019

Überwindung  

Staatstheater Augsburg / Germany

 

Olhos Que Não Veem    

MovRio Festival / Brazil  

2018

Wer Bist Du?    

Staatstheater Augsburg / Germany 

2017

Difrakto  

Companhia Brasileira de Dança - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

2016

Infiltrations

(Dance Video)  Geneva / Switzerland

2015

Por Cellos    

Cello Dance Festival - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

2014

Dois por Dois  

Rota Dance Company - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

Three Voices    

Cello Dance Festival - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

2013

Evolution of Blindness    

IOIC Silent Movie Festival - Zurich / Switzerland

Main Projects:

2022

And Everything in Between

The Shropshire Foundation/ The Netherlands

2021/ 2022/ 2024

Koerper.Welle

Clebio Oliveira/ Berlin Uferstudios

2022/ 2023

Lili Elbe

Riva & Repele/ Switzerland and Italy

2020

Contrapunctus or Self Portrait as Allegory of Conversation

The Shropshire Foundation/ The Netherlands

 

Rebecca - Frames for Extended Proximities

Gustavo Gomes/ Germany

Schauspiel Köln and Quartier am Hafen

About Miss Julie      

The Shropshire Foundation  / The Netherlands

2015

Puzzle Me      

Yang jiang / Italy and China

Sanson and Dalila    

Jonathan Lunn / Germany

Deutsche Oper Berlin

2014

Insight    

Sandra Maria Garcia and  Zoran Markovic / Germany

2013

Mash Up    

Maud Liardon / Switzerland 

Photo: Nick Schölzel

Awards and Nominations:

2019/ 2020

Best choreography and best performer for the solo"Olhos Que Não Veem"

2009

Bayerische Staatsminister Kunstpreis

2008

Augsburger Theaterpreis

Choreographic Assistant and Ballet Master:

- with Martino Müller for the creations:

   . HOK (2020 - 2021) China

   . Peter Pan (2012 - 2018) Belgium, Scotland, Dubai, Qatar,                 Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Singapore and Taiwan.

   . Cinderella  (2016)  Singapore

   . I Promessi Sposi (2012) Italy

   . Love (2012)  Luzern Theater / Switzerland

   . Air (2011) National Theater Zagreb / Croatia

- with Stephen Shropshire:

   . The Eighth (2023) São Paulo Companhia de Dança

   The Bagpiper's String Trio (2022) New York City Ballet

  . Partita (2022) São Paulo Companhia de Dança

   . The Measures (2022) Hong Kong Ballet

   . Handelwerk (2021) Hong Kong Ballet

   . Rococo Variations (2020) São Paulo Companhia de Dança

  . English National Ballet 2020 new creation

   . About Miss Julie (2017) Danish Dans Theater - Denmark

   

- with Marcelo Misailidis:

   . Carmen (2017)  Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

- with Ricardo Fernando

   . Tanzminiature and Tangata (2021) National Ballet of Kosovo

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Workshops and Company Teaching:

 

Buehnen Bern/ Switzerland

Deborah Colker Dance Company/ Brazil

Ballet Trier/ Germany

National Ballet of Kosovo/ Kosovo

Ballet de Niterói - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

Focus Dance Company - Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

Peter London dance Project - Miami / USA

Koninklijk Conservatoruim Brussels / Belgium

Centro de Artes Nós da Dança / Brazil

Festival de Joinville / Brazil

Dance Hall / Austria

Atores Reunidos Company / Brazil

Dance Area - Geneva / Switzerland

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