Bio 

Chris Bisram is an Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist with a primary focus in dance and theater. Bisram is an EmergeNYC Fellow at BAX, a Street Style Ambassador for CIty Center, and an Artichoke Ambassador for Artichoke Dance company. Bisram is a part of the Cumbe Community Dance Company: Rise, which is being directed by Candice Michelle Franklin, a Dunham technique certificate candidate. Alongside this Bisram is the demonstrator for the Dunham technique class at the Ailey extension for Marcea T. Daiter. They are also being mentored by Sarah Cameron Sunde, a Princess Grace and Guggenheim Fellow, who co-founded Works on Water and created the project 36pt5/ A Durational Performance with the Sea. Bisram is currently enrolled at CUNY Hunter's BA program in Dance Education. They are also a teaching artist at Long Island City High School, where they teach and run an after-school dance program through the nonprofit organization Zone 126. 

As an independent artist, they help co-facilitate the art collective/stewardship: Kin to the Cove, which grew out of the water- and time-based performance artwork 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Through this collective, they created and led a few projects centered on water pollution, climate change, and water's place in their life, including, Meh Mudda Deh Sea, For the Depths of Us and We are all Kin to the Cove, in collaboration with The Remote Theater Project. Bisram has also performed works for City of Forest Day and City of Water Day events hosted by IDig2Learn, a Roosevelt Island environmental education collective. As of recently, Bisram has started their own Dance collective: Chrisbisram/ShakunDaviDance, which centers water and the environment as themes of exploration and metaphor for self. Through the lens of daylighting: the act of resurfacing a body of water, Bisram has created Introspection which is a continuation of the themes of their work in For the Depths of Us. 

Other interest within the arts includes :

Event Coordination at Socrates Sculpture Park, Teen Artist at Socrates Sculpture Park and Noguchi Museum, Artist Assistant and Community Mobilizer to Sarah Cameron Sunde, Dance Facilitator at Zone 126, and Production Assistance at Dance Entropy/ Green Space.