Kristin Wagner is a mover based in the Greater Boston and Worcester areas. Since 2012, Kristin has been performing with a number of local contemporary dance theater companies and freelance choreographers, most notably: KAIROS Dance Theater, Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, and Chavi Bansal/Vimoksha Dance. Over the past decade, Kristin has had the honor of performing on stages at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios, among others. Her choreographic work has been presented across the Northeast, including at the Salem Arts Festival, The Dance Complex, Tufts University, AS220, the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, and the Maine International Film Festival, among others.

As Decent Dance, Kristin - with partner Tony Guglietti - creates accessible contemporary performance works that dabble in comedy, dramedy, and all things silly, sweet and true. In 2021, Kristin became a founding member of The Click, a contemporary dance initiative with a mission to build bridges between recreational, community, and pre-professional arts spaces and local/regional professional dance artists. Within The Click, Kristin continues to explore her role as dance maker, performer, teacher, and administrator, at times playing the role of choreographer, dancer, and/or program developer.

For three years, Kristin served as the Creative Director of the self-founded and now disbanded Lady BOS Productions, through which she supported the development and sustainability of local, independent dance and performance art through fundraising consultation, production planning and performance opportunities. She has also implemented educational programming and structural administrative systems for a number of established and influential community dance institutions, most notably The Dance Complex. In her administrative work, Kristin is motivated by the mission to make the experience of movement more financially, emotionally, intellectually, and physically accessible for students, performers, and audiences alike.

With a passion for supportive, rigorous, and eclectic dance education, Kristin has shared these philosophies and more with students ranging from youth to adult in competitive, pre-professional, and collegiate environments across Massachusetts. She is currently on faculty at développé Studios and Wilmington Dance Academy, and frequently guest teaches at Free Form Dance Academy and the Dance Theater of Greenville (SC). She has previously taught at the New England Conservatory, Koltun Ballet Boston, and The Dance Complex. Kristin is a certified artist in the City of Boston, a RYT-200 yoga teacher, holds a B.A. in Hospitality Administration with a minor in dance from Boston University (2012, summa cum laude), and has been supported through residencies and grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts; MASS MoCA; The Dance Complex; The Foundry; the JMAC Worcester; the cities of Boston, Somerville, Brookline, and Worcester; and more.

In all that she does, Kristin is guided by the belief that authentic, uncensored movement can be a pathway for personal growth, authenticity, and healing. She hopes to share this belief generously not only with her students and peers, but with her son Nico, who joined us Earthside in December 2023.

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