Christina Collins (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary dance artist from Richmond, Virginia. She is also a choreographer, lighting designer, stage manager, and music enthusiast and has her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Dance and Choreography. She is currently obtaining her MFA in Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park. As a movement artist, her practice and research is based on the engagement of Afrofuturism and the reimagination of the black experience and future, while also looking at black cultural relationships within her projects. Christina’s movement patterning explores a unique mix of jazz, contemporary, and modern forms, with a focus on the specificity of the movement, the aesthetic, and the physicality of wide and expansive movement within her choreography. Her particular approach allows her to create new energetic and contemporary floorwork that also brings joy to her viewers and movers. She brings together different techniques through dynamic shifts to develop her own unique sense of contemporary floorwork. Her drive and constant challenges push the viewer to think more deeply about contemporary dance, black social dance, and its power to move us spiritually, emotionally, culturally, and experimentally. Christina strives to inspire growth and development at the intersection of movement and visual language. Through her performances, teaching practices, and community work, she seeks to awaken the wide variety of spectators to the beauty of modern dance and its ability to do more than simply entertain.