Press
“...Kate Weare opened the festival with an impressively mature style - rangy, primal, often crouched like a tiger - and one dance to make you sigh with feeling, a sweet duet of sorority with the fabulously dramatic redhead Leslie Kraus.” Rachel Howard, Chronicle Dance Correspondent
"Formally, the original Kate Weare is a minimalist..yet emotionally, she paints on a large scale, exploring love, power, and womanhood." Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Kate Weare choreographed a take on tango for Adrian Clark and Leslie Kraus, by turns erotic, gymnastic, and seething hot. The partners are inseparable, like tango dancers; “Drop Down” simulates that form, with its machismo, sexuality, and turgidity." Lori Ortiz, Gay City News
“Kate Weare’s Drop Down seemed to encapsulate a world of experience in a quarter of an hour. Clark is tall, cool and unpredictable. Kraus wears her charisma like her flame-red hair; their performances bask in a hair-trigger exhibition of technique, and Weare avoids cliché every step of the way. An element of danger suffuses Drop Down; you’re never sure how a participant will respond to his or her mate…and it was hard to blink while they commanded the stage.” Allan Ulrich, Voice of Dance
“With her chiseled cheekbones and stately carriage, Kate Weare has a natural authority, which she puts to use in her new piece “Wet Road.” Weare, like a bright-eyed Athena, functions as a distant, skeptical observer who intervenes periodically in the dynamics of two couples working out their earthly desires and struggles with pushing, pulling, limb-trapping, and tango-inflected kicks.” The New Yorker
"A double bill I saw recently at Dance Theater Workshop can stand for an entire generation of choreographers. In "Wet Road," Kate Weare wanted to explore sexual desire from a female perspective. She did so, but not with bold nudity…the clinical detachment of Ms. Weare's approach was deeply erotic in its very indirection.” John Rockwell, NY Times: Sunday Arts & Leisure
"…(her) dances are so smart and so well executed and
full of stimulating invitations for thought…” John Rockwell,The New York Times
“(Wet Road)...entangling tango and postmodernism, set the bar higher
for duet choreography, with all the dancers laying down exacting, exquisite
performances.” Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Gay City News
“…Weare creates wonderfully ingenious, often cruel variations
on the steps.” Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
“...the heat came from the stage…you sense intelligence
and the choreographer’s mind at work.” Rita Felciano, Dance View Time
“Weare spun those moves into far reaches of the imagination where fiery women contended as equals with their men… where dancers took to the wet road with no concern for danger.” Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Gay City News
“Weare and her partner are a pair of superb dancers whose easy
grace and technical prowess were put to good use in that most difficult
of dance challenges, comedy.” Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian
