Artistic Director
Christopher Rudd
A Jamaican-born Guggenheim Choreography Fellow, the inaugural New Victory LabWorks Launch Artist, & the creator of the groundbreaking works TOUCHÉ and LIFTED for American Ballet Theatre.
In hopes of bettering the world through dance, his works blend contemporary dance, contemporary circus, and theatricality to speak to relevant issues. As founder of RudduR Dance, he is a two-time Exchange Alumni through the US State Department, having presented his works in the United States, Canada, France, Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, & Italy.
He credits the Armour Dance Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem’s Summer Intensives, and New World School of the Arts for his professional career, which includes Carolina Ballet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal, and Cirque Du Soleil. Rudd has created works for the Alvin Ailey School, Duke University, and UNC School of the Arts and received residencies from CUNY Dance Initiative, Vendetta Mathea’s La Manufacture, Tofte Lake Center, Kaatsbaan, and STREB.
““My goal is to communicate through movement by chiseling a work into existence. The search for what a piece says, its relevance, and its confirmation of some truth that deepens our understanding of who we are as humans is my driving force.””