Kate Weare
Choreographer and Artistic Director
Kate Weare is a young choreographer recently described in The New York Times as helping to define the next generation of dance makers. Awarded a 2006/07 Joyce Soho Residency, Weare has been mentored in the studio by Gwen Welliver, and created five new works which premiered in SF's West Wave Dance Festival in July. In April 2007, Weare was selected for MANCC’s ‘Free To Rep’ Program with Axis Dance Co. (www.axisdance.org) and was subsequently commissioned to create a 20-minute quartet for the company's national tour. In May 2007, Kate Weare Company won the final round of The A.W.A.R.D. Show! (a series in which the audience votes on the best modern dance) and was awarded top prize for a 2006 duet, Drop Down. Weare was also recently nominated for a 2008 Alpert Award in the Arts.
In November/December of 2007 Kate Weare was awarded a three week Choreographic Fellowship at the Maggie Allesee Center for Choreography (www.mancc.org) to explore the relationship between music and her movement language. In December and April of 2007, the Company has been granted two week-long Creative Development Residencies at Jacob’s Pillow. In 2008, the Company continues to work in residence at Dance New Amsterdam with performances of work-in-progress from May 1-4, 2008. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival presents the premiere of Bridge of Sighs from August 11-17, 2008 in the Duke Theater.
Weare received her BFA in Dance from CalArts in 1994 and has since presented work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Belgrade and Vienna. Since moving to NY in 2000, Weare has twice been commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop, and has presented work at Joyce Soho, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, The Kitchen, DancemOpolitan at Joe’s Pub, The 92nd St. Y, The Puffin Room, NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater, Judson Church, WAX, BAX and La Mama. In previous years, Weare presented work in LA at Highways, LACE and Los Angeles Theater Center, in SF at Theater Artaud, The Cowell Theater and ODC Theater, in San Diego’s Sushi, Cinema Reks in Belgrade, Teater Kosmos in Vienna, and The Place, London. Zwei, a film created with Canadian filmmaker Kenji Ouellet, was an award finalist at the 2001 Dance on Camera Screening at Lincoln Center and also screened at the Dancing for Camera Festival at ADF in North Carolina and DTW’s 2003 Film Festival. In 1999, Weare was nominated for SF’s Isadora Duncan Dance Award for her duet Suit/Skin. Recently awarded a Djerassi Artist’s Residency in CA, Weare regularly returns to San Francisco to show work and maintains a bi-coastal presence as a dancemaker.
