“one of the most exciting choreographic voices out there”

-John Rockwell, The New York Times 

“the downtown prodigy"

-Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

“extraordinary feats of visual imagination”

-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times 

“wildly creative"

-Candice Thompson, Fjord Review

“unconventional beauty”

-Brian Siebert, The New Yorker

“radical queer imagination”

-Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, The Dance Enthusiast

“brilliant and eccentric”

-Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

“bold, bizarre, and grotesquely beautiful”

-Steve Sucato, Pittsburgh City Paper 

“unearthly, ethereal, magical, and yes, otherworldly"

-Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“major theatrical imagination”

-Gus Solomons jr., Dance Insider

“brilliantly conceived and costumed”

-Brian Siebert, The New York Times

“supernatural ebullience"

-Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“rococo imagination"

-Leigh Witchel, Dancelog.nyc

“his mastery of grouping, gesture, and visual design never falters”

-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice 

“an artist with an imagination both scholastic and subversive”

-Brian Siebert, The New Yorker

“an extraordinary talent, a restless artist, a chameleon”

-John Kelly, Dance Magazine

“Does anyone in contemporary dance have a stranger and more fantastical imagination than Christopher Williams?"

-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times

“a connoisseur of the archaic and the arcane whose dances animate strange and fantastical elements of the past with rare persuasiveness and imagination”

-Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

“In Christopher Williams’s world, the macabre and the beautiful walk hand in hand down byways of myth, legend, and history.”

-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

“With a whimsical imagination and a sharp eye for detail, Williams knows how to cook up a visual and kinetic feast.”

-Siobhan Burke, The New York Times 

“It’s a visual feast. If dance is looking for new directions, I say one way to go is on this lush, sensual, and primal path.”

-Marilyn Jackson, The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Williams infuses his work with the honesty of queer love and queer life”

-Nadia Vostrikov, The Ballet Herald 

“Christopher Williams is a world-maker: an artist known for combining dance, theatre, music, and design into total artworks"

-Sarah Cecilia Bukowski, The Dance Enthusiast

“In Williams’s world, queer is synonymous with alternate ways of seeing and being"

-Candice Thompson, The Brooklyn Rail

Mission


A curious “alchemist of theatre" aiming to transcend boundaries between a variety of art forms, Christopher Williams continues to hone a distinctive personal style combining contemporary dance with visual design, music, and/or puppetry to yield multifaceted movement-based performance works in his own mythopoetic genre. Preferring to cast each new project specifically rather than maintaining a set company, he assembles a wide variety of performers that juxtapose many body types, ethnicities, genders, and orientations as well as span many ages, in order to instill each of his works with a varied and inclusive corporeal counterpoint.

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