Christy Funsch is a dance maker, educator, improviser, and performer.  She presented her first full evening of choreography (Vinyl Garden) in 2001, and formed Funsch Dance in 2002.  She has been presented in New York City as part of the Highway Series at Context Studios, David Parker’s Soaking Wet Series, Dixon Place, the Apex Art Gallery, and the Queens Council for the Arts. Additionally she has been presented at the Henny Jurriens School in Amsterdam, the Center Culturo de Belem in Lisbon, Portugal, Zoomtopia in Portland, Links Hall in Chicago, the DeCompression Gallery in Phoenix, the Mill Avenue Theater in Tempe, at the Toronto Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, the Richmond Dance Festival, and throughout California.  Christy is currently a collaborative partner of Nol Simonse, and she was a ten-year member of Stephen Pelton Dance Theater. She has also worked with Susan Rethorst, Heidi Latsky, Katie Faulkner, Sue Roginski, Dandelion Dancetheater, Maxine Moerman Dancetheatre, Leslie Seiters, Mary Armentrout, Nancy Karp & Dancers, Julie Mayo, Stephanie Schaaf, and many others. 

Christy received her BA in Dance and English from Hamilton College, New York, where she was the recipient of the Theater and Dance Award, and was the first student in Hamilton College history to be awarded a Senior Fellowship in Dance.  The resulting full-length work Waves (based on Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves) premiered at Hamilton's Minor Theater.  Christy later earned an MFA in Performance and Choreography from Arizona State University where she studied with Daniel Nagrin and received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.  While in Arizona, she co-founded, choreographed, and performed for the ESTRUS WORKS performance group.

Christy has taught on the faculty of City College San Francisco, Hamilton College, New York; Virginia Commonwealth University, Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley, California State University East Bay, Cabrillo College, College of San Mateo, Slippery Rock University, University of San Francisco, Skyline College, ODC Dance Commons, the SF Dance Center, New Dance Studios in Amsterdam, and ImpulsTANZ. She traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, research Fado performance gesture for her Movement Analysis Certification through New York's Laban Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies.  She has created many works for students and universities, including James Madison University, Santa Clara University, the University of San Francisco, and Hamilton College. She regularly hosts “Wrecking” sessions in SF, based on Susan Rethorst's model, and also coaches her own 100 Days Score.

Christy has been awarded residencies at the Djerassi Ranch in Woodside, at U Cross in Wyoming, the Yaddo Foundation, Subcircle in Maine and at Shawl Anderson, CounterPULSE and ODC Theaters in San Francisco.  She has been nominated four times for Outstanding Performance Awards from the Isadora Duncan Dance Award Committee. Christy has choreographed for several theater productions, including Bootstrap’s Arctic Requiem and Word For Word’s Holiday Hijinx, Lucia Berlin Stories and Home. She was a choreographer for ODC Theater’s Sandbox Series and a participating member of CHIME Across Borders, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s cross-national CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) program with mentor Tere O’Connor for 2013. In 2014, she was presented in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now 7 Festival, and was named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. In 2016 Christy became the first woman to be granted permission to learn and perform Daniel Nagrin’s iconic solo from 1965, Path. In 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and teaches on the faculties of Wagner College and the certification faculty of the Laban Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in Brooklyn.