Christopher Knowlton’s work ranges from dance, science education, comedy, storytelling, film and puppetry and has been featured locally and internationally. In 2012, Science Magazine chose Chris’s dance film as a finalist in their international Dance Your Ph.D. contest. He has also created original works for the 2011 Chicago Fringe Festival, the 2013 Puebla Baila Festival in Puebla, Mexico, the independently organized TED talks in Chicago TEDxWindyCity in 2013, the 2013 Illinois One State Together in the Arts (Illinois Arts Council’s biennial arts conference), JRV Majesty’s (Joseph Varisco) Queer, Ill & Okay in 2014 in Chicago, the 2015 DANscienCE Festival in Brisbane, Australia, Chicago Moving Company’s D49 and Dance Shelter 2015 in Chicago and the 2017 Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival. Since 2009, he has worked as a collaborative performer with numerous independent dance artists and groups from the burgeoning Chicago scene, including technology performance group ATOM-r/Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality, Erica Mott Productions, Khecari, Same Planet Performance Project, Synapse Arts, Sildance/AcroDanza, The Power of Cheer, The Inconvenience, visual artist Claire Ashley and many others. More recently, he has also collaborated with larger dance, science and technology organizations, such as Joffrey Ballet, the International Society of Biomechanics and Qualisys Motion Capture Systems. Chris has worked as a teaching artist for the DANSCIENCE Festival in Australia, for National Biomechanics Day in Chicago and with ATOM-r at the University of the Arts Helsinki, University of Chichester, London South Bank University and York St. John University. He is a published scientist and author, including in Drawn Together Through Visual Practice, an anthology that chronicles various visual practices and their ability to communicate and facilitate sensemaking. In addition to performing, teaching and creating, he holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and manages the Rush University Medical Center Motion Analysis Lab, where he is a scientific researcher in orthopedic and sports biomechanics.