About
I create experiences through movement.
As a dance artist, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator, I explore how dance can function as storytelling, cultural preservation, and a shared human language across live performance, film, and emerging visual media.
Cristina Benedetti
Cristina Benedetti is an interdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and filmmaker with over 30 years of experience in street dance, live performance, and movement-based storytelling. Her work bridges choreography, freestyle, and visual media, creating experiences that expand how dance is seen, felt, and understood across stage, film, and digital platforms.
Born in Verona, Italy, Cristina left home at a young age to pursue her artistic path, first relocating to Paris and later to Los Angeles. Navigating different countries, languages, and cultures profoundly shaped her perspective as both an artist and educator, reinforcing her belief in dance as a universal language capable of connecting people across communities and backgrounds.
Cristina developed her foundation in street dance forms including locking, popping, house, hip hop, and freestyle within the cultural spaces where these styles originated—clubs, cyphers, and community gatherings. These environments shaped her understanding of dance not only as performance, but as a living cultural practice built on exchange, memory, and human connection.
Throughout her career, she has trained and collaborated with pioneering figures in street dance and commercial choreography, while remaining an active presence in global dance communities across Europe, the United States, and beyond.
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 recent years, her artistic practice has expanded into interdisciplinary dance filmmaking, combining choreography with motion graphics, animation, and cinematic storytelling. Her short films include Collective Consciousness, a work honoring women in street dance and exploring legacy, unity, and cultural lineage, and Dance Fam Bebop – La Famiglia Che Balla, which reimagines dancers within an animated visual universe inspired by cinematic and anime structures. These works reflect her evolving focus on expanding street dance beyond performance into visual and narrative worlds.
Cristina has also been deeply committed to education and mentorship, teaching internationally for over two decades and serving as faculty at institutions such as the California Institute of the Arts.
Her teaching bridges street dance culture with commercial and cinematic practice, including intensive programs focused on movement for camera and international student exchange experiences such as performances at Camping in Paris.
Her current work focuses on creating interdisciplinary dance films and collaborative platforms that support artistic longevity, cultural diversity, and expanded opportunities for street dance artists beyond traditional performance pathways. Through her practice, she continues to explore how movement can function as storytelling, cultural preservation, and a shared human language.