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.
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
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
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