About
I am professional creative and dedicated dance educator who believes in the transformative power of story telling.
I am committed to creating meaningful positive experiences through Art Direction, Entertainment and Dance Education
Cristina Benedetti
Cristina Benedetti is an outstanding, versatile performer that can navigate from choreography to freestyle with more than 30 years of experience — from stages to live performances, theater to concerts to TV shows. She strives to always create an experience through movement both for the audience and the artists involved in the performance.
Cristina Benedetti was born in Verona, Italy. She moved to Paris at a young age for her passion of dance, where she had an intensive training in the dance art forms of locking, popping, house dancing, hip hop, and freestyle. Nevertheless, Cristina knew she had to take it a step further if she were to learn even more about the various dance styles. Los Angeles became her new home in 2006.
For more than 2 decades, Cristina has been an active presence in the most renowned clubs and community events involving the above art forms throughout both Europe and the United States. She has trained (and still train today) under dance pioneers like Popin Pete, Link, Marjory, Brian Footwork Green, Popin Taco, Suga Pop, Toni Basil, Greg Campbellock Jr., SuperDave, Sho-Tyme, Ejoe Wilson, Tone McGregor, Caleaf Seller, Junior Almeida (Paris), Mohammed Belarbe (Vagabond Crew-Paris), Max Laure (Paris), Dominique LesDema (Jazz-rock Paris) and many more.
She has performed with artists such as Twenty One Pilots, Lady Gaga, T-Pain, Common, Macy Gray, Ben Vereen, David Guetta, Kelly Rowland, Jamiroquai, Judith Hill, BOA, and Dierks Bentley, as well as companies such as Nike, Adidas, Google, Mc Donalds, Old Navy, Sony, Skechers, Prudential, and Sterling to name a few.
She is a member of The Groovaloos, and together, won the international dance competition on NBC, Superstars of Dance (January 2009), produced by Nigel Lythgoe. With the Groovaloos, she performed at the Ellen Degeneres show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and the Off-broadway show Groovaloo.
Since 2010 she was hired to choreograph for international artists and events such as Black Eyed Peas, iLuminate, Michelle Obama’s Kids Inaugural Concert, Groovaloos, Nike, Israeli artist Meital Dohan. In December 2019 she choreographed for Black Eyed Peas Ft iLuminate on the season 17 Finale of The Voice. She also has assisted and gave choreography contribution to world known choreographers in projects for Britney Spears, Old Navy, The Foster’s on ABC Family and So You Think You Can Dance and more.
In 2014 she created, directed and choreographed the “It’s House Music” video featuring Pop icon Toni Basil which went viral with over 10M viewers and articles on Inside Edition.
From 2007 to 2018 was holding her weekly House Dance Class at the famous Debbie Reynolds Studio in Los Angeles and has been teaching workshops in different countries like Italy, Mexico, Philippines, Japan and more.
In 2021 was invited as faculty in Hip Hop and Street Dance Techniques for the fall semester at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia CA.
Today her most recent choreography work can be seen in Las Vegas at the Stratosphere for the iLuminate show and she continues to travel across the globe to choreograph, direct projects, teach dance workshops and share her experiences with local communities.