Collaborators & Colleagues

Christopher Williams

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Christopher Williams is a dancer, choreographer, and puppeteer who has crafted and performed choreographic works in New York City and abroad. He has danced for Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Tere O'Connor Dance, John Kelly, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, and Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, among others. He served as a Center panelist and LOI panelist in dance in 2012.

References

Christopher Williams' website

Collaborators & Colleagues

Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is Peng Family professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Judson Dance Theater

Wendy Perron, former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company presents a slide lecture on this pivotal moment in dance history.

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Kyle "JustSole" Clark

Kyle "JustSole" Clark is a dancer and choreographer with expertise in hip-hop and street dance. He is the founder and artistic director of Just Sole Street Dance Theater.

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Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself

Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself allowed Nichole Canuso to reevaluate her choreographic practice, mentoring under U.K.-based dancer Wendy Houstoun.

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Roland Petit's Carmen

The Pennsylvania Ballet restaged Roland Petit's Carmen, a standard in European ballet that is rarely performed in the United States.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 4

Headlong presents the fourth and final performance in its series of River Charrettes, exploring Philadelphia’s watershed and urban expansion

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Joan Myers Brown Book Research and Development

Gottschild conducted research for her book chronicling the life of African American ballerina Joan Myers Brown.

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Being/With: Live

A participatory movement and storytelling experience invites geographically separated strangers to connect with one another through live performance and virtual technology.

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Firebird: Reimagined

Russian folktales and South African music and puppetry united in a multidisciplinary interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's composition for the 1910 ballet The Firebird, featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning South African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and larger-than-life puppets by Janni Younge of South Africa's renowned Handspring Puppet Company.

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Reggie Wilson: Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)

Partners for Sacred Places collaborates with Philadelphia Contemporary, Danspace Project, and award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson to present Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking).

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Leah Stein Dance Company: Voice and Movement Public Showing with Pauline Oliveros

A yearlong research project on voice and movement culminates in an open public showing and panel discussion with Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Stein, and the research ensemble.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Wendy Rogers

Wendy Rogers has choreographed and performed contemporary dances for over 40 years around the county, including California and New York.

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Grants & Grantees

Scenes View 2

BalletX commissioned Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo to create a new dance work that combined sharp movements, dynamic athleticism, and classical ballet vocabulary.

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Local Dance History Project

Philadelphia Dance Projects produced the Local Dance History Project, reuniting five prominent Philadelphia dancers to examine the development of contemporary dance in the city.

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Battle Hymns

Leah Stein choreographed a dance to an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang that eventually toured to San Francisco.

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News

Coming in 2018: Center-Funded Projects from Taylor Mac, Nels Cline, Tania El Khoury, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and More

The coming year brings engaging and cutting-edge Center-funded projects to the Philadelphia region.

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Guinea Residency

Kùlú Mèlé embarked on a two-week residency in Conakry, Guinea with traditional artists Mariama Touré and M'Bemba Bangoura.

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Facing Front: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to performances, the two-week period includes workshops on June 19–20.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020 Panel Discussions

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