Kristi Cole & Guests

Kristi Cole (she/her) is a queer, New York based performer and choreographer with a

BA in Dance and Political Science from George Washington University. She founded

Kristi Cole & Guests in 2019 with the mission of bringing together artists to create

powerful and thought-provoking interdisciplinary work. Her solo, IN MY PLACE

premiered in September 2019 and was presented in New Jersey and other NYC venues.

To create an original dance film, To Claim & Reclaim, Kristi collaborated with

filmmaker, Shannon Finnell. The film premiered in NYC in 2019 and was presented

throughout 2020. In November 2019, Kristi began working on her first evening length

piece which was set to premiere in March 2020. For this production, Kristi received a

New Work Grant from the Queen's Council on the Arts. Due to COVID-19, Kristi

transitioned the event to a virtual platform, Value of Space: An Evening of Art &

Performance, which premiered in December 2020.

As a choreographer and performance artist, Kristi believes that art is a social platform

to examine the world. By posing critical questions to the obstacles we face as a society,

her work seeks to resonate with audiences and spark meaningful conversations

surrounding complicated issues. Captivating, moving and powerful, Cole's work

demands the attention of the audience, sucking them into her world and spitting them

out into their own. Experimentation fosters artistic research and facilitates the creation

of an abstract world for the work to exist within. Viewers are given the opportunity to

attach their own experiences to the ones embodied before them, further highlighting

our common connection through our shared experience of being human.