After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009, she collaborated with and performed for artists such as Tameca Jones, Julie Atlas Muz, Laurel Atwell, Gerda König, Jean-Claude Lessou, Katie Mae Hebert, Trisha Brown, Julie Natanielsz, Emily P. Dunne, The Color Condition, Karen Nelson, and luciana achugar.
Kirstan founded and curated STUDIO SERIES SHOW from 2016-2019, a salon-style performance event that presented the work of Austin dance artists through a critique-in-process model.
In 2020, Kirstan received her MSc Dance Science from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, England. Her thesis work detailed the lived experience of dance-based practitioners working in palliative and end of life care.
Her work is inspired by the nervous system’s registration of nonverbal communication, mind-body integration, and the study of embodiment practices within social and community spaces. Currently, she is working as a freelance researcher for professional dance artists and choreographers.
She gave birth to her first child in July 2021.