Kate Weare is an American

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. She is the founder and

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of the Kate Weare Company.Kate Weare Company
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Early life and education

Weare was raised in the

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. She attended the

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, earning a

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degree in 1994.

Career

Kate Weare has presented her choreography globally, in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Belgrade and Vienna. Upon moving to New York City in 2000, she was twice asked to present work by

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, and presented work at Joyce Soho, Danspace at St. Mark's Church,

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, DancemOpolitan at Joe's Pub, The 92nd St. Y, The Puffin Room, New York University's Frederick Loewe Theater,

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, WAX, BAX, and La Mama. She has collaborated and shared her concerts with many choreographers such as Paul Taylor and Karl Anderson. While she is a

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choreographer, emotionally she explores the areas of love, femininity, strength and sexuality. Her movement ranges from seductive partnering and strong lifts, to witty gestures and lush movement phrases. She is interested in the kind of theatrical dance wherein narrative is implied but never specified and gives evidence of having thought deeply and fruitfully about her intentions. The

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noted: "Ms. Weare is simply the choreographer of her own piece."

Kate Weare Company

In 2005, she founded the Kate Weare Company in

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. The company's dancers include Leslie Kraus, Douglas Gillespie, Bergen Wheeler, Luke Murphy, T.J. Spaur, and Adrian Clark.

Awards

In 1999, San Francisco's Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominated Weare for her duet Suit/Skin. In 2001, Zwei, a film created with Canadian filmmaker Kenji Ouellet, screened at the Dancing for Camera Festival at the

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’s Film Festival and was an award finalist for the Dance on Camera Screening at

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. She was awarded with the 2006/2007 Joyce Soho Residency, and Gwen Welliver mentored her in the studio. Weare was a 2009 Princess Grace Awards winner. In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography.

References

External links

Kate Weare Company

Axis Dance Company

Dance Theater Workshop

Reviews

* ttp://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0410,footnotes,51650,14.html Dance review by Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Village Voice, March 2004)
Dance review by Debra Jowitt on Letter? Letter (Village Voice, May 2005)
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