Cristina Moya-Palacios

Cristina Moya-Palacios is a Venezuelan-born, Miami-raised artist with a BFA from New World School of the Arts. She’s had the pleasure of working with Adele Myers and Dancers, Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, and Michelle Dorrance. Now in Brooklyn, she’s taken on more collaborative roles with peers and is currently performing with Kashia Kancey, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Company [REDACTED], Skyla Schreter Dance, and trans-disciplinary artist Luis A. Lara Malvacías. Beyond performing, Cristina enjoys crafting sonic scores for fellow artists and choreographing her own work that focuses on the immigrant experience, Latine identity, sacrifice, and surrealism through a blend of extreme physicality and theatrical portrayals. Most recently, she has presented solo work in the AbidWe Komorebi exhibition at L’SPACE Gallery for New York Textile Month as well as in Xenoduo’s “A Mobile Home” installation and performances at Sunset Park and Union Square. Cristina is grateful to have deepened her practice and exploration as a 2024-2025 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist.

All Immerican Dream Girl!
All Immerican Dream Girl! aims to shine a light on the complexity of the immigrant experience in the United States by commenting on the American dream from the perspective of a Latina “Dreamer” or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Through overwhelming bouts of extreme physicality, gestural sequences, and social dance sections that never seem to settle, viewers enter a simulation of the taxing cycles, frustrating resets and restarts, unraveling, and inability to move forward that the immigration process entails. She takes us on a journey to nowhere with completely pathless attempts at assimilation that ultimately lead to a reckoning of the crumbling facade this empire has tried to sell us.

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