Katherine Helen Fisher
Visiting Assistant Arts Professor
Katherine Helen Fisher is an Emmy-nominated director, choreographer, and performer whose work merges dance with emerging technology. She creates immersive, interactive performance installations that explore themes of performativity and representation, blending the digital and physical worlds.
A former member of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Katherine has performed with Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX, ODC San Francisco, and the Merce Cunningham Trust. She also appeared in the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach.
As co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media production studio, Katherine directed One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary with disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light. Her film CEILING won Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. She also created Le Monstre, a performance garment that won a Jury Prize at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
Her work has been presented by institutions such as Brown Arts Institute, Judson Church, LACMA, The Palm Springs Art Museum, and The Music Center, and featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Katherine holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA from NYU Tisch.
Headshot by Mark Escribano