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

Danny Yung

Since the late 1970s, Danny Yung has established a reputation as one of Hong Kong's most influential and pioneering artists.

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Grants & Grantees

Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body: Early Works

Bryn Mawr College presents two performances of Trisha Brown's pioneering Early Works, created between 1968 and 1975, blurring the boundaries between performance and visual art.

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Ronald K. Brown

Dancer and choreographer Ronald K. Brown is the founder of Brooklyn-based contemporary dance ensemble Evidence, A Dance Company.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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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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The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance is autobiographical and presents a running story in which Xavier, a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, is both narrator and dancer.

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Pew Fellows News: James Ijames Wins Kesselring Prize, Susan Lankin-Watts Premieres Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer, Alex Da Corte’s Carnegie International Installation Featured in ARTNEWS, and More

In October, our Pew Fellows news roundup includes a Bessie Award and Kesselring Prize, the premiere of a new musical composition, artists on tour around the country, and more. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Drexel University Westphal College

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design fosters the study, exploration, and management of the arts: media, design, the performing, and visual.

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This Town Is a Mystery

Headlong Dance Theater brought dance directly into the private homes of Philadelphia citizens, where the members of those households became the dancers.

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Rennie Harris Performance Retrospective

The Kimmel Center presented a 15-year retrospective of the Philadelphia-based hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement.

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Philadanco presents Ulysses Dove's Bad Blood

Philadanco reconstructs Bad Blood, a highly physical and seldom-performed piece by Ulysses Dove.

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Supper, People on the Move

Supper, People on the Move, a large-scale performance by choreographer Silvana Cardell, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015.

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Person of the Crowd: Film Screenings

The Barnes Foundation will screen a series of films depicting modern life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Classes

To acquaint Philadelphia dancers with Trisha Brown's explorations, a series of free classes and workshops will be offered at area Universities and art spaces.

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Performance Lecture by Malavika Sarukkai at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bhratanatyam dancer and choreographer Malavika Sarukkai will present a performance lecture that ties the language of Indian classical dance to its interpretation in the visual arts.

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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Brenda Dixon Gottschild completed research and writing for her book, which tells the story of Joan Myers Brown and the previously unwritten 20th-century dance history of black Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice

Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing

Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”

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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.”

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