Chris Walker

Director, Division of the Arts, UW–Madison

Chris Walker is the director of the Division of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, professor in the Department of Dance, and founding artistic director of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Program at UW–Madison. Walker is a multi-hyphenate contemporary dance and performance artist from Jamaica whose creative research reengages the technology at the core of the traditional and urban ritual practices across the African diaspora. His research intersects dance choreography for the concert stage, movement as dramaturgy for theatre, and devised movement collaborations with visual and performance artists for museums, alternative spaces, and video/film.