Cristian Boscheri

Cristian Boscheri is an Italian interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam. His work moves between theatre, dance and comedy, and, lately, between today and the year 2126.

He started breaking in Italy in 2005 and won the Italian national title in 2009. Since then he has danced in more than a hundred battles in fifteen countries, and in 2023 he became world champion at the Open Your Mind experimental dance battle in Eindhoven.

Before committing fully to the arts, he trained as an energy engineer, with an MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology from TU Eindhoven. He co-founded Stichting wedowe and co-directed it for eight years, producing short films with young makers, programming the BrainCandies live events and running urban dance projects abroad.

His solo shows combine breaking, clown, mime and stand-up: How to Enjoy Life, Stream of Unconsciousness, Pleaser, which Theaterkrant called “more than a dance solo, more than a clown act”, and Heavy Meta, his first hour of comedy. With Simon Granit and Stasy Terehhova he co-created The Odd Ones, which toured the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and the UK. On comedy stages he has performed more than a hundred sets in English, Italian and Dutch, and in 2025 he reached the finals of both the Comedy Talent Award and the English Comedy Talent Award in Utrecht.

Since 2024 he has developed Timescaping, an art practice in which he and his audiences imagine specific parts of life a hundred years from now, through sessions, scenario cards, stories and images.

His work keeps returning to how emotional and psychological states shape what we perceive, and to comedy as a language that can be physical, verbal, or both at once.

He also teaches dance-comedy workshops, where participants write jokes with the body, and occasionally hosts events.