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Kate Watson Wallace
Kate Watson Wallace creates site-based performances that re-imagine everyday spaces; a contorted female solo in a bedroom closet, a combative duet in the back seat of a Chevy caprice, a woman covered in a repeating pattern of video graffiti. Her work choreographs spectator as well as performer, taking audiences on intimate, human-scale journeys through a row house, a parking lot, a dance club. Audiences meet the human body up close.
She is a 2007 Pew Fellow in the Arts in Choreography. Her work has been presented at DanceBoom at the Wilma Theater, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, The New Dance Alliance at The Joyce SoHo, The Walt Whitman Arts Center, and the Wave Rising Series. As a dancer, she performs regularly with Headlong Dance Theater and Scrap Performance Group. She has also worked with Jane Comfort and Company, Carol Brown, Gin MacCallum and Nichole Canuso, among others. She was a member of Group Motion Company for four years, with whom she toured nationally and abroad. She has been in residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia and is a resident choreographer at Susan Hess Modern Dance. She has been a guest artist at Drexel University, The University of the Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, and at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has been a teaching artist at Curtain Call Creations, an after school arts education program, since 2003. Watson Wallace has been funded by Dance Advance, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation. www.katewawa.com