Kate Watson-Wallace

Kate is an interdisciplinary artist who works as a director, choreographer and movement director for live performance, video, and television.

Choreography includes: St. Vincent’s performance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Alex Da Corte’s Rubber Pencil Devil at the Venice Biennale and Carnegie international, a re-imagined version of Allan Kaprow’s Chicken by Da Corte, music videos for Animal Collective, Panda Bear and Black Dice (dir.Danny Perez), and St. Vincent, and Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht (in collaboration with Bakudi Scream).

Described by The New York Times as a space where "Wild Imagination ruled," her performance/installation work has been funded by multiple foundations including: Map Fund, Doris Duke Foundation, Creative Capital, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is a Pew Fellow in Choreography, a Movement Research AIR, and a Gibney Dance DIP resident. Her interdisciplinary performance work has toured extensively to venues including Redcat and SummerStage Central Park.

Recently, she created an interactive listening experience, Ecology of Care, for Hauser & Wirth with her collaborator David Thomson, based on his text,  through their ongoing research project the Artist Sustainability Project.

She has curated music and performance, most extensively in collaboration with Afrofuturist producer and educator King Britt, creating the first ever music festival inside the Fringe Arts annual festival, which featured award-winning artists Helado Negro, Saul Willaims, Xenia Rubinos, and Vernon Read (In Living Color).

She holds an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She will be in residence at the Chocolate Factory theater this summer with her collaborator Kalman Duran, creating a new performance installation.