CHRIS WALKER is a professor of Dance (African/Diasporic Dance and Contemporary Performance) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Director for #BARS workshop and movement director for Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale (2018) at The Public. Senior choreographer with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (Rough Drafts, Mountain Climbing, Urban Fissure). Walker has received commissions for concert dance, experimental theater and performance art works in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He creates collaborative performance with visual artists for museum and alternate spaces. Awards: Vilas Associate, Romnes Fellowship.