Kristina Alleyne

Kristina Alleyne is an award-winning choreographer, performer and Co-Artistic Director of Alleyne Dance. Originally a training in athletics/ sprinting, she choose dance and trained at The BRIT School, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Verve before establishing an international career as a performer, creator and educator. 

She has performed with internationally renowned companies including Akram Khan Company, Ultima Vez, opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Arthur Pita, and has worked as a Movement Associate for Marvel Studios. As a choreographer, Kristina has created work for companies including Martha Graham Dance Company (USA), Phoenix Dance Theatre (UK), Tiroler Landestheater Ballet (Austria) and Sadler's Wells' National Youth Dance Company. 

Together with her twin sister Sadé, Kristina has developed Alleyne Dance into one of the UK's leading independent dance companies, recognised for its dynamic movement language that combines Caribbean, Hip Hop and Kathak influences with contemporary dance. Their work tours nationally and internationally and has received multiple awards for choreography, performance and film. 

Alongside her creative practice, Kristina leads workshops, mentorship programmes and artistic residencies across the UK and internationally, nurturing dancers of all ages and backgrounds through an inclusive and collaborative approach to movement. In 2026, she begins a Master's in Dance Movement Therapy at Codarts University of the Arts, further enriching her artistic practice through the relationship between movement, wellbeing and human connection. 

Images Left to Right: Jane Hobson; Barlas Sahinoglu; Ellie Kurttz