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Christopher Williams: transforming the strange to the beautiful.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Christopher Williams: transforming the strange to the beautiful.(On the Rise)

Article Excerpt
There is something oddly anachronistic about Christopher Williams, the 28-year-old dancer, choreographer, and puppet-master. An intense, medium-size man with a relatively long torso and short, strong legs, his extraordinary jump and sad-clown face make viewers think of Nijinsky. In any onstage group, he's the one you notice, fusing a high]y developed aesthetic sense with the intense focus of a forest animal.

Born in Washington, D.C., he grew up in Syracuse, NY. With support from his parents (mom's a former biology teacher; dad's a senior systems analyst at Syracuse University), Williams studied ballet while in elementary school, but stopped in high school because his classmates gave him a hard time. "I became a big...

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