Chris Burnside has a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MM in Dance from Florida State University. As a dancer, he has been a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company and has performed with John Bernd, Jane Comfort, Tim Miller and Johanna Boyce. His own work, which ranges from flat out choreography to movement monologues, has been presented in the Fast/Forward series of the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, and in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, and up and down the East Coast; it is currently in the repertory of the Richmond Ballet.