Katie Workum in Keen [No. 2]; photo by Maria Baranova
Katie Workum
performer
Katie Workum is a performer and maker living in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with Ivy for 12 years. Her choreographic work takes form as a shifting and temporary monument to community, self and the present. She melds improvisational performance and practice together as an alternate, feminist model of working and presenting work. She has been an artist in residence at Center for Performance Research, NYC and Marble House Project, VT for the development of her new work Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena. She has been presented by Gibney Dance,The Wassaic Project, MASS MoCA with Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Danspace Project, Mount Tremper Arts, The Chocolate Factory, PS122’s Catch/Coil, Gibney In the Works/American Realness, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Dance New Amsterdam, 92nd St Y, Symphony Space, Galapagos Art Space, GAle GAtes, et. al., WAX and others. She has been an Artist in Residence at MASS MoCA (2015), Chez Bushwick (2014), Dance New Amsterdam (2008, 2009), Mount Tremper Arts (2010, 2014), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2006), and The Kitchen (2005). She holds a Masters in Dance Education at NYU Steinhardt and has taught at BkSD, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Gibney, DNA, Barnard College, NYU Experimental Theater Wing, and Lehman College.
works: Quarry, Keen [No. 2], Keen (Part 1)