ccap is a non-profit site for development and distribution of choreography, founded in 1998 by artistic director Cristina Caprioli. Designed at first as administrative support for Caprioli’s work, in step with the expansive force of her work and the entire field of extended choreography, ccap has grown into a powerful, multifaceted engine, producing a remarkable number of performances, installations, publications, festivals, symposia, cross-cultural exchanges, transdisciplinary research projects, long-term social activities, consistently reaching a vast and heterogeneous audience in various places and circumstances. ccap operates in affiliation with national and international organizations and institutions, with funding from the City of Stockholm, Region Stockholm and Swedish Arts Council.

After decades of dancing in Europe and the US, Cristina Caprioli (Brescia, 1953) settled in Stockholm where she began to choreograph in the 90s. Over the years, Caprioli’s work has evolved in motive, purpose, form, and format and it consistently performs a critical urgency of thought and action, through precision of sign and complexity of structure. All for the thrill of a shared aesthetic experience, and the dancing that stirs up the world and touches our senses.

Caprioli has toured her productions nationally and internationally, taught extensively and choreographed for institutions such as the 59North Dance Company and GöteborgOperans balettkompani. From 2008 to 2013 she was Professor of Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Since then, she has been involved in post-graduate studies and acting as supervisor for PhD students. Caprioli has received several grants and awards, such as the Cullberg price (2008), the prestigious Gannevik stipendium (2013), and the royal medal Illis quorum meruere labores (2021) “for her extensive and significant work as a dancer and choreographer as well as outstanding contributions in both the Swedish and the international dance field.” In 2022 her body of work was acknowledged in the comprehensive retrospective ONCE OVER TIME, commissioned and presented by the festival Tanz im August in Berlin. This year La Biennale di Venezia honors her with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award in Dance.