“Do you want me to dance or do you want me to talk?” Cristiana Morganti, a long-time soloist in Pina Bausch’s company Tanztheater Wuppertal, can do both. She can dance, and she can talk about it with irresistible charm. “Jessica and me”, her second eveninglength piece, is a self-portrait. Decked out in a white dress and red stilettos, she offers us fleeting glimpses of her life and development – reflecting upon the art of dance and what it means to be a dancer. With nonchalance, humour and impeccable timing, she recounts the story of her momentous meeting with the dance icon Pina Bausch, only to then deftly break away from her.

Cristiana Morganti is a dancer and choreographer. She studied classical dance at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome and contemporary dance at the Folkwang Universität der Künste. She has since worked with numerous choreographers, including Susanne Linke, Urs Dietrich, Joachim Schlömer, Felix Ruckert, VA Wölfl and Wanda Golonka. From 1993 to 2014, Cristiana Morganti was a dancer with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. She is currently a visiting professor both at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico in Rome and at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Her latest and third evening-length piece “A Fury Tale” premiered in October 2016 in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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