Kate Watson-Wallace (Choreographer/Director) is a site-based choreographer who lives in Philadelphia. Her movement installations have been housed in a machine shop (The Mentalist), a nightclub (Gone), in a row home (House), a car (CAR), in warehouses, bars, galleries, churches and cabarets, as well as for the concert stage. She is a 2007 Pew Fellow in the Arts in choreography. She has received funding from Dance Advance, a Pew program, the Rockefeller Map Fund, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation. Her dancing, choreography and study have taken her throughout Europe, and across the U.S. Her work has been presented at DanceBoom at the Wilma Theater, The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, The New Dance Alliance at The Joyce SoHo, The Walt Whitman Arts Center, and the Wave Rising Series. As a dancer, she performs regularly with Headlong Dance Theater and Scrap Performance Group. She has also worked with Jane Comfort and Company, Carol Brown, Gin MacCallum and Nichole Canuso, among others. She was a member of Group Motion Company for four years, with whom she toured nationally and abroad. She has been in residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia and is a resident choreographer at Susan Hess Modern Dance. She has been a guest artist at Drexel University, The University of the Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, and at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has been a teaching artist at Curatin Call Creations, an after school arts education program, since 2003.
