Workshops & hosting

Hosting and moderating

Cristian hosts and moderates events, from talks and panels to cultural evenings and congresses. He cares about how an evening feels from arrival to departure, keeps the pace, puts speakers at ease and finds ways to get the audience involved. He likes taking people out of their comfort zone, and knows when to let them stay in it.

Between 2017 and 2024 he co-created and hosted more than twenty-five editions of BrainCandies Live, talk evenings on circular economy, renewable energy, wealth inequality and gender equality, with over a hundred and twenty speakers. He also created Surprise Yourself Club, improvisation game nights for artists who like to surprise themselves, and Cri and Friends, multidisciplinary evenings in Rotterdam. For TU Eindhoven he hosted a podcast series with researchers.

Dance-comedy workshops

In his workshops Cristian shares the way he makes his own shows, where breaking, clowning and mime meet stand-up. Participants look for what is already funny in how they move, and learn to write jokes with the body, from a single gesture to a short scene.

They are open to dancers, actors, circus artists and anyone curious about physical comedy. Length and format are shaped around the group and the place.

He also teaches Applied Floor Acrobatics, a specialisation course at Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam.