Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Christian Burns - Season 12, Episode 141

Christian Burns is a Teaching Artist, Performer, and
Choreographer. His body of work is built upon interdisciplinary
projects relating to the intersection of Improvisation,
Choreography, and Training.


Some of his collaborators include Hope Mohr, Bobbi Jene Smith,
Alessio Silvestrin, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Eric Beauschsne,
Shinichi Lova-Koga, and Kirstie Simson among others.


He was a guest artist with The Forsythe Company and a member of
Alonzo King Lines Ballet and James Sewell Ballet among others. He
helped create burnsWORK, The Foundry, and Parsons Hall Project
Space.


His formal training from The School of American Ballet has been
complemented by 25 years of Contact Improvisation and Somatic
movement practice. He has been commissioned for his choreography
and master teaching by dance companies and universities
throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.


He has been awarded numerous fellowships, residencies, grants,
and commissions, as well as being a contributor for When Men
Dance; Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders (Oxford
University Press).


He is currently expanding his new virtual 1:1 coaching program
for Improvisational research and continues to be a long-standing
faculty member of Alonzo King Lines Ballet Training Program, an
Adjunct Professor for Lines Ballet BFA at Dominican University,
and in 2023 was a Guest Lecturer for the Stanford University
Dept. of Theater & Performance Studies.