“the downtown prodigy"

-Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

“one of the most exciting choreographic voices out there”

-John Rockwell, The New York Times 

“supernatural ebullience"

-Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“extraordinary feats of visual imagination”

-Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times 

“brilliant and eccentric”

-Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

“bold, bizarre, and grotesquely beautiful”

-Steve Sucato, Pittsburgh City Paper 

“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

“brilliantly conceived and costumed”

-Brian Siebert, The New York Times

“major theatrical imagination”

-Gus Solomons jr., Dance Insider

“verve and visual acuity”

-Joy Goodwin, The New York Sun

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

-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

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

-John Kelly, Dance Magazine