Cristina Maria Pereira de Almeida Graça holds the title of Specialist in Dance, obtained in Public Exams at the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She completed her degree in Modern Languages and Literature, variant of German Studies on 1982/07/18 at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She completed the Specialized Artistic Studies Course (equivalent to a degree) from Escola Superior de Dança of the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. She took the course in Formation Pédagogique des Artistes Choreographiques - auditoreur libre in 1994/09/09 from IFEDEM - Institut de Formation des Enseignants de la Danse et de la Musique and the course in Contemporary Dance - one year special in 1985/07 /31 by London Contemporary Dance School. She published 5 articles in specialized journals. She was a dancer in several independent groups during the 1980s. She collaborated as a teacher of Movement and Dance and as a choreographer with A Comuna theatre between 1986 and 1989. She was a teacher at the Escola Artística de Dança of the National Conservatory between 1985 and 2003. She was a teacher at the Dancer Training Course at Companhia Nacional de Bailado between 1990 and 1993. She choreographed for Companhia de Dança da Madeira in 2000. She choreographed in the context of Escola Superior de Dança in 2013, 2019, 2022 and 2023. She taught Martha Graham Dance Technique at Companhia Nacional de Bailad, in February 2020, in the context of the revival of Martha Grahma's work "Chronicles", integrated into the program ¿Dançar em Tempo de Guerra¿. She has been a professor at Escola Superior de Dança of the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa since 2003. She has been President of the Technical-Scientific Council of ESD since 2020. She was President of the Board of the Council of Representatives of ESD between 2017 and 2020. She was responsible for the Erasmus+ Program at ESD between 2012 and 2016. She was a member of CLic's Scientific-Pedagogical Council between 2019 and 2023. In her Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Technical skills; Dance technique class; Image; gendered body; Representational power; Tradition; Body; Gender; Dance.