Choreographer, performing arts researcher, and professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and completed a Master's degree in European Live Performance Art at the Libre University of Brussels. Throughout her artistic career, she has collaborated with various national and international artists. She received several supports for her creations. Among them: The Happiest President, winner of the 2022 CAP PUCP; About a Sunset on Saturn (2022), mockumentary video art; A Sunset on Saturn (2021), a dance work co-produced by the Alliance Française in Lima. Breath and Void, 2021, video art, commissioned by the Specialization in Creation and Scenic Production of the Faculty of Performing Arts PUCP, The Surface, 2018, Allin Munay, 2012, winner of the large-format dance grants from the Municipality of Lima, presented at FAEL, EL Convite, winner of the IBERESCENA creation grants, presented in Belgium 2011 and Urongo 2010. 

"The exploration of the desires and expectations of the individual as a social being, their contradictions, and aspirations as part of a collective are recurring themes in Cristina Velarde's choreographic work. Her creative universe stages the tensions and affections of individuals through a unique treatment of physical gesture, orchestration in the musicality of bodies, and the relationships of contact, as characteristic procedures of her poetics. Velarde plays with making the ordinary strange to question relationships and contexts. Her pieces navigate aspects of the intimate, the political, and the absurd through a profound exploration of the play of physical forces as a bridge to her dramaturgical logic."