Chris Harris has been choreographing and dancing in Denver for over three decades. She is a choreographer, artistic director, visual artist, dancer, pedagogue, and teacher with interests in math, science, data visualization, and has a fascination with how we understand art, dance, motion, and the psychology of performance. Chris holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

Continually returning to Colorado during her training, she has been part of the Colorado dance scene for over 30 years. While working at various dance studios she was a faculty member, a program advisor for Modern, Jazz, Contemporary and Composition programs, and a project manager/director for many teen and adult performances. She has loved the role of festival creative director, choreographed for local theaters and dance companies, been a guest lecturer at The Arts Institute of Colorado and CSU, and been adjunct faculty at and choreographed for the University of Denver and the University of Colorado.

Previously she was artist in residence for the Denver School of the Arts for 17 years, Co-Director of the Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop, and Assistant Artistic Director of Interweave Dance Theatre. In 2005, she founded and became Artistic Director/Choreographer for Louder Than Words Dancetheater & the Colorado Youth Dance Theater. Both projects performed until 2018 in Denver. After completing graduate school in 2019, Chris has been privileged to share her multi-disciplinary artworks and lectures with so many amazing students on the Front Range.

Colorado Movement Lab brings Chris’ love for dance, Colorado, and exploration full circle. She plans to continually ask all the complicated and wonderful questions about creativity, health, grounding in self, and performativity that have guided her love of dance as an art form for all of her life.