I asked Cristina Hall to tell me about her creative process:
“It’s always very different…
Life kind of throws things out at me and my intuition’s like, “Okay, this is what I need to express right now,”
So sometimes an image can be the inspiration, and on that image I begin to investigate music that I think would inspire me for that piece,
Or sometimes people will contact me…
“I want you to choreograph something to this specific music,” so then I begin hearing the music over and over again, and just kind of letting my body tell me what I need to do or where it needs to go.
When you’re kind of on a completely clear blank slate, “Okay here’s my canvas, how am I going to pain this picture?,” it can be a bit more difficult because you’re coming out of nowhere, so you have to imagine music or something you want to create in silence, so you think of breath or movement as music in itself.
So it depends…
It’s usually an internal process first, and I try not to create just solely on, “Oh this movement looks pretty,”
It’s gotta come from an emotion somehow, for me anyways.”
Watch her dance below:
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