Katherine Fisher

Katherine Helen Fisher is an Emmy Award-nominated director, choreographer, and performer whose research lies at the intersection of dance and emerging technology. Her current practice involves creating real-time, immersive, interactive performance installations which center embodied ritual within non-linear narratives. Her work critically traverses themes of performativity and representation, blurring the divide between digital and physical spaces.

Katherine was a member of The Lucinda Childs Dance Company and has performed with renowned dance companies such as Mark Morris Dance Group, MOMIX, ODC San Francisco and the Merce Cunningham Trust, among others. She was an ensemble member of the Philip Glass opera Einstein On The Beach, directed by Robert Wilson.

As co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media production studio, Katherine directed One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary made in collaboration with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light. This piece centers access as an integral design element and premiered on PBS affiliates. Katherine movement directed music videos for Radiohead and Rufus Wainwright. Her film, CEILING, won the award for Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. In collaboration with The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), she created Le Monstre, a participatory performance garment which won a Jury Prize for Best Paper at The 21st International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

Her work for the stage and screen has been presented by Dance Now, Judson Church, Danspace Project, The Palm Springs Art Museum, LACMA, The Lincoln Center Dance Films Association, ADF, The REDCAT, The Music Center, Hermès, Los Angeles Dance Project, at the Microsoft Global Exchange Conference and on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.

Katherine has served as a visiting teaching artist at The Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently serving as choreographer on the The Data Fluencies Theater Project, a multi-institutional Mellon Funded artistic research project developed in partnership with CultureHub which engages with algorithmic and AI systems and embodied experience.

In addition to her artistic work, Katherine is committed to supporting the work of marginalized creative communities by advocating for more equitable remuneration for cultural producers.

Katherine holds an MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.