Lauded by Brian Seibert of The New York Times as “thrilling and rare,” Katie Workum began making dances in New York City in 1997. Her work slips between multiple forms: improvised and set movement, scripted text, songs and live music. In addition to making set work, since 2013 Workum has made Authentic Movement and improvisational forms a bedrock of her work. She melds improvisational performance and practice together as an alternate, feminist model of working and presenting work. In 2023 she premiered the dance theater piece Monster Mourning with Weena Pauly in 2023 at Kestrels, NY. She was an artist in residence at Center for Performance Research, NYC and Marble House Project, VT for the development of a new work Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, Jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena at The Foley Gallery in 2020. She has been presented by Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) with Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, The Chocolate Factory, PS122’s Catch/Coil, Gibney In the Works/American Realness, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, Movement Research/Judson Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance New Amsterdam, 92nd St Y, Symphony Space, Galapagos Art Space, GAle GAtes, et. al., WAX, and others. She has been an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA (2015), Chez Bushwick (2014), Dance New Amsterdam (2008, 2009), Mount Tremper Arts (2010, 2014), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2006), and The Kitchen (2005). Workum holds a Master’s in Dance Education at New York University and has taught at BKSD, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Dance New Amsterdam, Barnard College, New York University Experimental Theater Wing, and Lehman College.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Performance

LINKS:
katieworkum.org