Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams (choreographer), dubbed “the downtown prodigy” (The New Yorker) and “one of the most exciting choreographic voices out there” (The New York Times), is a New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award winning choreographer, dancer, and puppeteer devoted to crafting choreographic works in NYC and abroad since 1999. Named a choreography fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2021, he has presented his critically-acclaimed works in France, Italy, England, Spain, Holland, Colombia, and Russia, nationally in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Interlochen, Kaatsbaan, and Jacob’s Pillow, and in many local venues including Lincoln Center, City Center, Baryshnikov Arts, The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, La MaMa, P.S.122, HERE Arts Center, the 92nd Street Y, and Judson Church. He is the 2025 recipient of the Sibyl Shearer Fellowship for Dancemakers at Ragdale and has been awarded fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Center for Ballet & the Arts, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists, was one of four finalists for the Hermitage Greenfield Prize in 2023, was named an honoree of Exploring the Metropolis in 2017 after receiving an EtM Choreographer + Composer Residency, and has been granted creative residencies at Ragdale, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, New York Live Arts (as a Live Feed Resident Artist), Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Bethany Arts Community, Marble House Project, Chautauqua Institution, Kaatsbaan, Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, The White Oak Plantation, The Yard, Bates Dance Festival, Mt. Tremper Arts, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, on Captiva Island via the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, through Movement Research, the Harkness Dance Center at 92NY, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Dream Music Puppetry Program, the HERE Artist Residency Program, the Tyrone Guthrie Center at Annaghmakerrig House in Newbliss, Ireland, the Anderson Center, via the CUNY Dance Initiative, and at Yaddo where he was named for the Charles and Candace Wait Residency in 2014. He holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, and has performed for Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Tere O’Connor Dance, John Kelly, Kathy Westwater, Yoshiko Chuma, Edisa Weeks, Rebecca Lazier, Basil Twist, and David Neumann, among others.
