“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 that combines contemporary dance with visual design, music, and puppetry to yield multifaceted movement-based performance works in his own fantastical 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 with an inclusive and varied corporeal counterpoint.

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