a brief little something
Katie Workum makes actions that go on stages. With fierce movement, ice hockey training, singing, cellos, verbal wit, things that aren’t witty at all, loud noises, detailed costumes, resourceful sets, the willingness to farm her memories and the curiosity to investigate the expansive potential of the natural body, she will invite you on a journey through dark and light, arriving at a new and thoughtful place. Workum’s training does not reference one technique, but draws on her training in theater, contemporary dance, athletics and music to deliver a frankness of both movement and idea.
a tiny bit of history
Katie began making work in New York City in 1997. She still makes it today.
Katie Workum Dance Theater is her company of dancers and dances in which she mounts her non-collaborative projects.
Katie has worked as a dancer and actor for, and has learned a great deal from: Young Jean Lee, Ivy Baldwin, Will Rawls, David Neumann, Stacy Dawson, Elizabeth Streb, Sarah East Johnson, Kourtney Rutherford, Linas Phillips, Jenny Seastone Stern and Julia Jonas.
photo: Josie Miner
Katie Workum
(that’s WIll Rawls)
a few good things
Commission by Dance New Amsterdam, with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts, Fall 2008
Bessie Schonberg First Light Commission, DTW 2007
Tribeca Performing Arts Center Artist in Residence 2005-2006
Kitchen Dance In Progress choreographer, 2004
Concord Academy Summer Dance Program Young Choreographer’s Fellowship, 2002 and 2003
Astral Grant recipient 2002