Kathy Westwater
Dance
"An unconventional choreographer experiencing a surge of recognition" The New Yorker
"Westwater reminds us we are irrevocably connected to that original ooze and the blunt impulses contained in it." The Village Voice
IN THE NEWS: New York Times Dance Pick here
CURRENT HAPPENINGS
performance premiere
PARK: Moundscapes
Gibney Center, NY
Dec 8, 9 & 10, 2022
exhibition
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
Staten Island, NYC
on view now through December 31, 2022
photo caption:
Foregrounded and in profile,
the long hair of a dancer
whose eyes are closed is
suspended above her head.
Other dancers behind her are doing
individuated movement,
seemingly striking or
grasping the air.
photo Ian Douglas
CURRENT
performance premiere
PARK: Moundscapes
Gibney Center, NYC
Dec 8, 9 & 10, 2022
exhibition
PARK: Ephemera
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
Staten Island, NYC
Aug 20-Dec 31, 2022
creative residency
new work in development
NYC
April 10-24, 2023
performance premiere
new work in development
Chocolate Factory Theater
NYC
April 2023
RECENT
cultural exchange
with Movement Research and Chocolate Factory Theater
Sofia, Bulgaria; Skopje, North Macedonia; & Belgrade, Serbia
Oct 17-31, 2022
performance premiere
PARK: Wanderings
Fresh Kills Landfill
presented by Freshkills Park, NYC Parks Department
Nov 5, 2022
workshop
Material Making Choreography Workshop
Newhouse Center
Oct 8, 2-4pm
residency
PARK Cycle 2
Arts Center @ Governors Island
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center
Jun 24-Aug 26, 2022
symposium
Eco-Monsters and Somatic Take-overs
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Sep 16-19, 2021
college workshop
Guest teaching, Prof. Clare Croft's Dancing Women/Dancing Queer class
University of Michigan
Sep 16, 2021
performance installation premiere
Untitled Solo PARK Cycle 2
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
Staten Island, NYC
Aug 7, 2021
creative residency
work in development
Saratoga Springs, NY
May 4-28, 2021
creative residency
PARK Cycle 2
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
Staten Island, NYC
March 22-April 30, 2021
community workshop
PARK Cycle 2
Staten Island Urban Center
NYC
April 11, 2021
college workshop
PARK Cycle 2
College of Staten Island
NYC
April 12, 2021
online workshop
FLESHED OUT
Gibney, NYC
January 30, 2021
performance reprisal
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
Live Artery Series
New York Live Arts, NYC
January 11, 2020
performance premiere
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
New York Live Arts, NYC
February 14-16, 2019
creative residency
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography
Tallahassee, FL
January 21-February 3, 2019
community residency with workshop and showing
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
Southern Echo
Jackson, MS
January 18-21, 2019
production residency
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
Lumberyard Center for Film and the Performing Arts
Catskill, NY
December 2018
creative residency
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
Petronio Residency Center
Athens, NY
August 2018
photo Ian Douglas
dancer Rainy White in
Kathy Westwater's Extemporaneousness (2017)
caption:
A dancer appears in a dance studio, ballet bar afixed to the wall behind her. Her eyes appear closed and her head is thrown back. One arm is lifted slightly in front, elbow bent. She lightly steps across one foot with the other.