Kate Weare is a preeminent American choreographer known for her startling combination of formal choreographic value and visceral interpretation. Weare founded Kate Weare Company in New York City in 2005 as a vehicle for her choreographic research, while creating commissions for companies around the world such as The Jose Limon Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre (Dundee),  Union Tanguera (Lyons), The Juilliard School, The Cincinnati Ballet, Buzz Dance Theatre (Perth), Ririe-Woodbury Dance Theater, GroundWorks Dance Theater, and ODC/Dance, among many others. Awards include The Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship, Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residency & Commission, The Joyce Theater Creative Residency Award (2016, 2014, 2011), The Aninstantia Foundation Fellowship, White Bird’s Barney Choreographic Prize, CalArts Inaugural Evelyn Sharp Summer Residency Award, The MANCC Fellowship Award, The Jacob’s Pillow Residency Award, NC Arts Council Fellowship and The Djerassi Fellowship. Teaching includes: Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, CalArts, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., among many others. Weare earned a BFA from CalArts, dancing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City in 1998. Based now between New York and Asheville, NC, Weare is exploring dance on film with collaborators Jack Flame Sorokin and Brit Worgan. To date, Weare and Sorokin have produced 4 films, “Landfall,” “Moth,” “RISA,” and “KIA,” garnering 12 awards and 52 premieres in festivals around the world. Weare and Worgan are in production with their first film, “New Home,” supported by The Princess Grace Foundation.