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

Grants & Grantees

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stephen Petronio

Stephen Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body.

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Mash-Up Body Lab

Kate Watson-Wallace worked with four dancers in a research project that embraced, appropriated, and layered movements found in online and pop culture ephemera, in order to develop new types of "21st-century" dance.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “Re-Enchanting” Public Space Through Dance

Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”

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Peggy Baker

Peggy Baker is one of Canada's most treasured modern dancers and choreographers, and the artistic director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects.

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Bad Blood

Philadanco reconstructed Bad Blood, a highly physical and seldom-performed piece by Ulysses Dove, which premiered at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in April 2014.

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Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Reggie Wilson's Stamped Stomped Stumped

Through the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents a new work by choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow Reggie Wilson.

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Supper, People on the Move at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Choreographer Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move travels to the experimental theater La MaMA in New York City, as part of the 2016 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

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Cynthia Ling Lee

Cynthia Ling Lee is a contemporary choreographer who draws on both postmodern and North Indian classical *kathak* training in her dance making.

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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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ear-whispered: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts.

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Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory)

Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory), a dance collaboration that explores African-American and African cultures, was presented by Bryn Mawr College's Performing Arts Series.

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action is primary

Centering on Foley's improvisational performance practice, action is primary will feature photographic, moving-image, sonic, and written documentation of up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15 p.m.

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Questions of Practice

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jérôme Bel

An experimental choreographer, Bel provokes his audiences with witty, cerebral presentations that pose questions about virtuosity and the nature of dance.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Flamenco's Influence on Visual Arts and Popular Culture

Four flamenco scholars weigh in on the connections between flamenco and popular culture in varying historical contexts.

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Maria Hassabi on Dancing in Museum Spaces

Choreographer Maria Hassabi on how performance work changes from a theater to a museum setting.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble promotes artistic exchange and dialogue between Ukrainians and the global community through dance.

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Carnival, a New Work by Mark Morris

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble celebrated its 40th anniversary with the world premiere of Carnival, an original dance piece by contemporary choreographer Mark Morris.

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