Chris Willes
Artist
Christopher Willes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer and dramaturge based in Canada. From 2010 to 2015 he worked with Dancemakers as a composer/musician, performer and dramaturge. He began as the company’s Metcalf Foundation Dramaturgy Intern (2010/11) under Jacob Zimmer. He later composed music for Michael Trent’s Adaptation Project (2012) and Loveloss (2012), and co-created and performed in Hi-Fi (2013), among other projects. His artistic work blends experimental music, performance and visual art forms, and has been presented internationally. A Chalmers Arts Fellow and MacDowell Fellow (USA), he holds an MFA from Bard College. Christopher worked as an associate artist and co-artistic producer with the Toronto based organization Public Recordings 2017-2024.
Adaptation Project
Michael Trent’s response to choreographer Mitchell Rose’s 1974 Following Station Identification
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Apr 19, 2012 – Apr 29, 2012
Love Loss
In loveloss, Michael Trent mines personal experience, investigating the bodily affects of love and loss.
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Feb 17, 2013 – Feb 24, 2013
Around
Celebrating Dancemakers 40th anniversary, this new work mines all the ways we encounter ourselves and others in our pursuit of being human.
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Mar 26, 2014 – Apr 6, 2014
Hi-Fi: Rumschpringe
In response to Lo-Fi in 2012, Michael Trent has relinquished his fall season and handed it over, along with all the authority, to the resident company dancers.
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Nov 18, 2013 – Nov 24, 2013