Kate Weare creates dances that seek to merge the mind and the gut through the power and persuasiveness of the moving body. With both rawness and precision, she maps a humanism that is contemporary, disquieting and profoundly stirring. Brought up by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, California, Kate draws on visual art sources in her work, as well as a fascination with the fields of language, poetry, contemporary music and psychology.
Kate earned her BFA from California Institute of the Arts and danced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City to found her own company in 2005. She has since enjoyed creative support from The Joyce Theater Foundation, Joyce SoHo, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theatre Workshop, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam, Djerassi Artists Program, and received a 2007 fellowship at FSU’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography to explore live sound and movement. Kate has since enjoyed collaborations that explore dance and live music with many extraordinary talents, including violinist David Ryther, the Brooklyn-based indie band One Ring Zero, composer Michel Galante and Argento Chamber Ensemble, and the SF-based old time band The Crooked Jades.
Kate was recently commissioned to create new work on Scottish Dance Theatre, Australia's Buzz Dance Theatre, CityDance Ensemble, Axis Dance Company, Paufve/Dance and NYC's Paradigm. In recognition of work with her own company, Kate has received top prize in NYC’s 2007 AWARD Show, a 2009 Princess Grace Award and a 2011 Joyce Theater Foundation Fellowship. She is currently serving as guest faculty at Princeton University in an Atelier for music students co-taught with composer Barbara White, as well as choreographing for White's chamber opera, Weakness, to premiere in March 2012 at Princeton. Kate Weare Company can next be seen at FOCUS DANCE, the American dance platform being presented at The Joyce Theater in January 2012, on January 4th and 8th at 7:30pm.
