Kate Weare

Kate Weare is recognized as a preeminent American choreographer whose dances merge the mind and the gut through the power and persuasiveness of the moving body. Brought up by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, CA, Weare draws on visual art in her work, as well as a fascination with language, poetry, contemporary music, psychology and nature. Weare received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts and danced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City. She founded Kate Weare Company in 2005 and steadily gained recognition for her uncompromising, articulate choreographic vision. As a choreographer, Weare's awards include the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award, the Aninstantia Foundation Fellowship Award, the Danceworks Residency Award, White Bird’s Barney Choreographic Prize; Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residency and Commission Award; Inaugural Evelyn Sharp Summer Artist-in-Residency Award at CalArts; The Joyce Theater’s Mellon Foundation Residency Award; and The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship. She has been awarded artistic residencies at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, CalArts, Bates Dance Festival, Djerassi and Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), and many institutions have commissioned her work, including BAM, The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Bates Dance Festival and Dance Theater Workshop. Weare has also shared her choreographic vision in faculty positions such as Guest Artist at Princeton University, and in residencies at Juilliard, NYU/Tisch, Virginia Commonwealth University, Keene State University and Marymount Manhattan, among other educational institutions. Kate Weare Company has been presented nationwide by Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, ArtPower at UC San Diego, Ringling Museum of Art, Dance Celebration Philadelphia, Spring to Dance St. Louis, Northrop Concerts and Lectures at the University of Minnesota, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, among numerous other venues and festivals. In New York, the company has been presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, BRIC, Guggenheim Works & Process, Fall for Dance at New York City Center, The 92nd St. Y, Symphony Space, The Skirball Center, Dancemopolitan at Joe’s Pub, Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church. Weare’s most recent work involves exploring dance on film in collaboration with filmmaker Jack Flame Sorokin. Weare and Sorokin just completed their first experimental film, “Landfall,” in 2022, and their second, “Moth,” in 2023.