Dancing isn’t just a hobby for Cristina; it’s a lifelong passion that fuels everything in her life. “I started at 15 years of age in Europe,” she explains, “and I always had dance in parallel with my other career – I’m an engineer.” While her engineering experience led to a career in IT, Cristina couldn’t ignore the call of dance.
“I graduated DanceSport Choreography after school, as part of a school art program. I then became the International DanceSport 10 Dance champion in Romania,” she says proudly, explaining how she became the best in her field. “I was one of the first…because comparing to other, bigger countries, we didn’t have a long tradition in ballroom dancing. It was something new at that time.”
Cristina was determined to let dance take her as far as it could, training and competing with “the pioneers in ballroom dancing in Romania.” But it wasn’t just one particular style that held her interest, she was drawn to all forms of ballroom equally. “I like all of them,” she enthuses, “I still compete in professional-amateur 10 dances today. It’s the Latin category, which is Cha-Cha, Rumba, Samba, Jive and Paso Doble, and there is ballroom standard category, which is Waltz, Tango, Quickstep, Foxtrot and Viennese Waltz.”
