Kristina Kuest-Mistry
Biography Body of Work
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Kristina Kuest-Mistry is a free-lance
choreographer / dancer in the San Antonio area. Her training began there, mostly at
St. Mary's Hall and with San Antonio Dance Theatre, where her primary focus was ballet.
She attended Boston University and continued her dance training at both the
university and Boston Ballet School. During the seven years that she performed with
the Boston University Dance Theatre, she both choreographed and danced extensively in
student and faculty concerts. She participated in many workshops in the Boston area,
especially in modern dance and contact improvisation. She has worked with Deborah
Bluth and Sean Curran and has also enjoyed retreats at Earthdance and festivals like
American College Dance Festival. Since 2001, she has been on the Board of Directors
of San Antonio Dance Umbrella; she is the WIP (Works In Progress / Wednesdays In
Performance) chairwoman and webmaster.
Kristina's style of choreography incorporates elements from Merce Cunningham and
others. She enjoys working with elements of chance and freeing up the standard dance
stratification with Contact Improv. She is fascinated with Dance/Technology, but has
not experimented too much in this medium.
Kristina also went to MIT for a masters in Mechanical Engineering, but that is another
story.
Record keeping has not been a favorite activity. However, one of these days, old programs and videotapes will be brought out and integrated onto this site.
Recent works include:
Turkey Time (2004). Performed at SADU's November WIP with Jayne King, Dora Ruffner and a cameo by Nick Mistry.
Revisit (2004). Music by
Toby Twining, "Hotel Destine". Performed at "Critical
Response Workshop" for SADU's WIP.
An Evening of Contact Improv with Amber
Ortega-Perez, Kristina Kuest & Laura Vriend. Music by Rudi Harst. A
special presentation of WIP, July 31, 2002. Click here for a review of this performance
Lungful (2002). Music by Toby Twining, "Hee oo oom ha". Performed at Young
Tongues and Toes Festival, June 8, 2002.
Progressive Progression (2002). Music by Kronos Quartet, "Soliliquy". Performed first time at SADU's WIP concert, May 29, 2002. Click here for a review of this performance.
Counted (2002). Music by Phillip
Glass.
Contact Improv - Getting the word out to San Antonio about CI has not been the easiest thing.
Developing choreography for SADU projects.
Lifeforms. Learning this
choreographic software will enable the creation of dance/technology work. Real time
control via sensors alter the dance environment, by changing music, lighting, and other
variables. Projections of avatar dancers will accompany live dancers on stage.
Copyright 2002 - 2004. All rights reserved.