“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

“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 that 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 Wiliams’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