Christopher Page-Sanders

Originally from St. Louis, MO, Christopher is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of NU-World Contemporary Danse Theatre. He received formal dance training from the Center of Creative Arts and the University of Missouri - Kansas City as a BFA Dance Major in the Conservatory of Music and Dance. With a background that spans both theater and concert dance, his journey as a performing artist has taken him across the globe, gracing stages with renowned dance companies such as the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Dianne McIntyre Group, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, and the Owen\Cox Dance Group, as well as with notable theatre companies such as the Fulton Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Mastervoices, and the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre Company among others. As a choreographer in concert dance, his choreographic commissions include Chloe-Grant Abel, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, COCADance, Davis Contemporary Dance Company, Deeply Rooted ECS, Presenting Denver, as well as for theatre companies, having had the privilege of directing\choreographing theatrical works such as Dreamgirls (Lone Tree Arts Center), Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar And Grill (Arvada Center), Last Stop On Market Street (Metro Theatre Company), Pippin (COCAPresents), Raisin (Town Hall Arts Center), 1776 (Maine State Music Theatre), Sophisticated Ladies (Vintage Theatre Productions), and The Wiz (Short North Stage and Town Hall Arts Center). He served as the associate choreographer for productions of Hairspray and Anastasia at Maine State Music Theatre and The Fulton Theatre, directed and choreographed by Kenneth E. Ingram. As well as the associate choreographer for the Off-Broadway Premiere of Triple Threat, also directed and choreographed by Kenneth E. Ingram. His choreography has been presented nationally at festivals including the Battery Dance Festival, Boulder Jazz Dance Festival, Dumbo Dance Festival, the International Association of Blacks In Dance Conference, Mile High Dance Festival, and the Presenting Denver Dance Festival. As an educator, he has had the privilege to teach on faculty or as a guest artist at institutions such as the Center of Creative Arts, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Academy, Denver School for the Arts, Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center, East Central College, Metro Theater Company, Pre-Professional Performing Arts High School, Rosie's Theater Kids, and William & Mary College. “On the shoulders of my ancestors, I create!”