Christopher Caines, “one of the most musically erudite and articulate dance-makers around” (The New Yorker) has created 40+ works for his company, Christopher Caines Dance, founded in 2000. His commissions include The Human Countdown (2009), for Oxfam, leading a global coalition of NGOs, among the largest public artworks ever created in Central Park; a ballet for the USA International Ballet Competition’s closing ceremonies (2010); new dances for St. Francis Day, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (2011, ’12); The Yard (2013); Darrah Carr Dance (2014); Richard Daniels’s Dances for an iPhone app series (2014); The Kitchen Revue, commissioned by 92Y (2015); and CamerataNY (2018). Christopher was resident choreographer for the Actors Shakespeare Company, NJ (2005–9); choreographed Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet at Bard SummerScape (2011); and directed and choreographed Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen for dell’Arte Opera Ensemble (2014; “hugely ambitious and delightful ... terrific fun”—NYTimes). Grants: Meet the Composer; The Field; Ernst Toch Society; Astral, Puffin, Putnam, Ziegelman foundations; 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography. He teaches ballet as an adjunct professor in CCNY’s theater department and is the movement director for composer Patrick Grant’s ensemble Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars.