Christina Rosas Anastasiou - ProfilesArchive

About Me

A "valley girl" at heart, born in Encino, raised in Arizona and Mexico, Christina Rosas Anastasiou is an up and coming performance artist based in Los Angeles. As a modern dance/theater major at Arizona State University, and film student at Scottsdale Community College, Christina appeared in local short films and stage performances. Theater performances include, "Mi Vida Chiquita en Mexico," a dance theater piece she wrote and performed in Arizona, to Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues.
She is one of the co-founders of the Phoenix Film Collective, Group 101 Films Phoenix. She also worked on staff for the Phoenix Film Festival. The collective is based from Los Angeles where filmmakers are challenged to write, produce, and direct a short film every thirty days for six months. (www.group101films.com)
Since relocating to Los Angeles fulltime, she's appeared in several short and independent films. She continues to work on her screenplay, "At 150 BPM."
Christina comes from a musical family which naturally influenced her to sing and study voice. She studied with various vocal coaches in Arizona and continues to study in Los Angeles. Her brother is a musician based out of Denver and her father played the electrical guitar.
Her innate entreprenuerial spirit and professional career as a massage therapist, yoga instructor, makeup artist, and aromatherapist propelled her to establish her own wellness and spa company in Arizona called Fosoma Wellness and Spa Services. Fosoma's services are now offered in California. To complement the company, she created a small online boutique for luxurious fashion, beauty, spa, and yoga lifestyle, called, "Agapi Girl. Spiritual.Playful.Chic." Christina gained her experience in fashion from runway modeling in her teens, to working for local boutiques and high end retailers.
In her spare time, Christina enjoys spending time with friends, going to Arizona to see her family, reading, laughing, exercising, dancing, yoga, massages, acting class,relaxing,traveling, horseback riding, writing, going to live shows, going to see her favorite rock bands, and church. The performing arts will always be her first love! .contactTable .text, .contactTable a, .contactTable img {filter:none!important;;

My Interests

Laughing, Loving, Being Kind, Telling the Truth, my relationship with God, myself, and others around me, the sounds and feel of the ocean, spaces, places, I love observing people, I love people's features, way of speaking, the tones in their voices, energy, behaviors, motivation, movement, its fascinating and its where I draw a lot inspiration from,I love the sounds of birds, cats, dolphins, they have these high pitched sounds, film,dance,music,fashion,aromatherapy, beauty,business trends, traveling,world history and politics,architecture, engineering, alternative/chinese medicine, homeopathy,spirituality,lectures, makeup artistry, photography,the art of Lisa Albinger,Dale Terbush,Frida Kahlo,The photography of Erica Gabrielle,Ann Hamilton, the installation art of James Turell, Twila Tharp, Pina Bausch, Jose Limon,Merce Cunningham,Penelope Cruz Films, V-Day Campaign, One Campaign, Children of the Night, Angel Network, Habitat for Humanity, Kitten Rescue, Delicious Food, Falling in Love,Staying in Love, Children, Bodywork, Spiritual Cinema,Dance/Music Therapy,Museums,Dance/Theater Performances,Rock en Espanol, Rock/Alternative Bands, Opera, Animals particularly horses.

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers, actors, dancers, musicians, makeup artists, fashionistas, activists, photographers, and artists that are committed to change for the greater good. Inspirational people. Artists that stand up for what they believe in because they really, really, believe in their cause.

Music:

THE HOTTEST BAND AROUND AND IN THE FUTUREVocally I'm influenced by: Bebel Gilberto,Shawn Colvin, Jessie Baylin,Paula Cole,Hope Sandoval,Julieta Venegas,Ely Guerra,Gina Rene,Donna DeLory,NikkiRichards,Sade,Dido,Erin Kamler of Mantra Girl,Julie Day, Storm Large,I love Charlotte Gainsbouroug,Deva Premal,Wah, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, Girish,Les Nubians,Joss Stone,Shakira. Other artists:Los Pinguos,Pix Lax,Mana,Jaguares,Classic Rock,Santana,The Doors,Led Zepellin.I like dark sounds like Metallica,Korn,NIN.I like Nirvana,Oasis,The Killers,The Strays,Sonic Youth,Ozomatli,Lincoln Park, Incubus, Mars Volta,Smashing Pumpkins,Matisyahu,Rusted Root,Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Rage Against the Machine,Coldplay,Porno For Pyros,Blues, grew up with a lot of Christian/Gospel/Spanish music.The list goes on and on.

Movies:

La Vita E Bella, Amelie, Strangers in Good Company, Angel at My Table, Portrait of a Lady, Volver, The Wizard of Oz, Mexican,Greek, Italian, and French Cinema, The films of Pedro Almodovar,Martin Scorsese,Robert Zemekis,David Lynch,Ida Lupino,Maya Deren,Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion,Guy Richie,Amy Heckerling,Jodie Foster,Mimi Leder,Kathryn Bigelow,Claudia Weil, Dance Girl Dance, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Requiem for a Dream, What Dreams May Come, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Secret, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 21 Grams,Babel,Lost in Translation,The Virgin Suicides,Amores Perros,Pans Labrinth.I'm influenced by the films and works of Maria Felix,Rita Hayworth, Rita Moreno,Cantinflas,Charlie Chaplin,Alfred Hitchcock,Grace Kelly,Benecio del Toro,the art direction of Academy Award winner Eugenio Caballero who was once my client,Gael Garcia Bernal, Cate Blanchett,Naomi Watts,Scarlett Johannsen,Catalina Sandino Moreno,Robert Downey Jr.,Val Kilmer,Johnny Depp,William Mcnamara,Toni Collette,John Malkovich, John Turturro,Chazz Palminteri,Don Cheadle.I love theater and the works of David Mamet, Lanford Wilson,Josephina Lopez,and John Guare.

Books:

The Celestine Prophecy, The Bible,The Upanishads,The Heart of Yoga, Light on Yoga,Many Lives Many Masters, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Wicked, Waking the Tiger,Dreams into Action,The Good Negress,The Third Wave, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Think and Grow Rich, The Hottest State,Art of Dreaming, The Wheel of Time by Carlos Castaneda, C.S. Lewis' Suprised by Joy, Edgar Cayce books, The Creative Habit by Twila Tharp, Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Woman Thou Art Loosed by Rev. T.D. Jakes

Heroes:

Jesus, Yogi Bhajan, Mother Theresa, my mother, my sisters, my brothers, Pastor Victor Pena-my stepdad,Polarity Practitioner Gary Strauss, Cain Carroll, Choreographer Mary Fitzgerald, Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Pastor Tommy Barnett, Pastor Matthew Barnett, Rev T.D. Jakes, Eve Ensler, Joyce Meyer, People who love themselves and others.

My Blog

EDUCATING MYSELF ON THE MATTER

In the last few months, I've been in one way or the other, presented with articles or emails about Darfur. This morning, I read an article detailing events about what is going on there. Later on ...
Posted by Christina Rosas Anastasiou on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:44:00 PST

GENOCIDE IN DARFUR-BY MINDY

GENOCIDE IN DARFUR 1.What is Darfur? It is a place in Sudan, Africa where a genocide is happening right now.2.What is Genocide? - The mass killing of a group of people based on their...
Posted by Christina Rosas Anastasiou on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:36:00 PST

GET INVOLVED! V-DAY SCOTTSDALE 2007 V-DAY LOS ANGELES 2008

Dear Friends, Today kicks off the 2007 V-Day global campaign to end violence against women and girls. This year's theme is RECLAIMING PEACE. Since 1998, the V-Day movement has worked to stop ...
Posted by Christina Rosas Anastasiou on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:00:00 PST