“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