Christopher Williams, dubbed “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, Danspace Project, DTW, 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 and has been awarded fellowships from NYFA, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Center for Ballet and the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation. He holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, and has performed for Tere O’Connor Dance, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, Yoshiko Chuma, John Kelly, Kathy Westwater, and Edisa Weeks, among others.