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KATIE MARTIN
Katie Martin is a choreographer, performer, dance and movement educator, and recipient of the national Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Dance. She has presented and performed her choreography throughout New York City and across the country, including Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, EMPAC, The Neurosciences Institute, New England Complex Systems Institute, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and A.P.E. Gallery, as well as at numerous college and university performance venues. Her work has been supported by such organizations as the Jerome Robbins Foundation, National Performance Network, Bumper Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Arts Council, Northampton Arts Council, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and has been honored at the American College Dance Association’s Gala Concert and selected for the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center. |
Katie has been highlighted in such publications as Dance Magazine, Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette (UK), Contredanse/Nouvelles de Danse (Belgium), Contact Quarterly, Slate Magazine, signal to noise, Village Voice, Time Out New York, in Melinda Buckwalter’s anthology Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion, and in Elliot Caplan’s dance film Emergent Forms.
She has had the pleasure of collaborating with and performing in the work of many artists, including choreographers Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Dana Reitz, Ann Carlson, Wendy Woodson, Terry Creach, Keith Thompson, Meg Wolfe, Mark Dendy, and the Emergent Improvisation Project; with musicians Bill Nace, Jake Meginsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Chris Cooper; and with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan.
Katie trained and performed for 10 years under the direction of American Ballet Theater principal ballerina Karena Brock Carlyle before receiving a BA in Dance at Bennington College and a MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance as a Teaching Fellow and Gretchen Moran Fellow at Smith College. She is also a certified Interdisciplinary Yoga educator, synthesizing various modalities of embodied training into unique yoga-based movement experiences for all levels of practice. Over the past 15 years, Katie has created and taught a wide range of dance, movement, and yoga courses throughout New England, holding dance faculty positions at Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Middlebury, and Bennington Colleges. She lives in Northampton, MA and is currently on the dance faculty throughout the Five College Dance Department and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.
Photo by Jim Coleman.
She has had the pleasure of collaborating with and performing in the work of many artists, including choreographers Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Dana Reitz, Ann Carlson, Wendy Woodson, Terry Creach, Keith Thompson, Meg Wolfe, Mark Dendy, and the Emergent Improvisation Project; with musicians Bill Nace, Jake Meginsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Chris Cooper; and with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan.
Katie trained and performed for 10 years under the direction of American Ballet Theater principal ballerina Karena Brock Carlyle before receiving a BA in Dance at Bennington College and a MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance as a Teaching Fellow and Gretchen Moran Fellow at Smith College. She is also a certified Interdisciplinary Yoga educator, synthesizing various modalities of embodied training into unique yoga-based movement experiences for all levels of practice. Over the past 15 years, Katie has created and taught a wide range of dance, movement, and yoga courses throughout New England, holding dance faculty positions at Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Middlebury, and Bennington Colleges. She lives in Northampton, MA and is currently on the dance faculty throughout the Five College Dance Department and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.
Photo by Jim Coleman.
