Christy's work is inspired by her interest in culturally diverse movement forms including Butoh, Qigong, Yoga, Indian Classical dance, and modern Western dance. Often working collaboratively with dancers, writers, composers and visual artists, she approaches each choreographic project as a form of meditation, a process of stripping away to find what is authentic, real, and spontaneous.
Christy's work has been performed in a variety of contexts, including the Judson Memorial Church (NY), HERE Arts Center (NY), Movement Research (NY), On the Boards (Seattle), Velocity (Seattle); The Seattle Art Museum, St. Mark's Cathedral (Seattle), Centrum (Port Townsend, WA), The Chapel (Seattle), and outdoors in Cal Anderson Park (Seattle). The breadth of work reflects a commitment to involve and challenge audiences in uncommon ways.
For the past ten years Christy has found her home in Seattle, and with her curated program, !!Artslaunch!!, has cultivated a diverse community of artists who explore new work beyond the mainstream. Christy has also collaborated with brother, composer Garrett Fisher and the Fisher Ensemble, on many new performance projects which have toured nationally.
Christy is sponsored by the Allied Arts Foundation and has received several grants from the Seattle Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. She has been part of collaborative teams that have received funding from 4Culture, King County Site Specific Grants, Bossack-Heilbron Foundation, Wiggly World, and Allied Arts Foundation. Most recently she was the choreographer and co-director for the Fisher Ensemble's new opera Psyche which received Best of Seattle 2008 in Seattle Magazine. |