2009 Princess Grace Award
Choreography Fellowship
Nominated by: PARADIGM

Additional Grants:
2024 Special Project Grant

Kate Weare, Artistic Director of Kate Weare Company, is an award-winning American choreographer known for her startling combination of formal choreographic value and visceral, emotional interpretation. Weare charts a contemporary view of humanism by placing women at the center of the story amidst the violence, sensuality, and yearning for intimacy that marks our age. Her work explores undercurrents in relationships – both tender and stark – by drawing on our most basic urge to move and decode movement.

Since founding KWCo in New York City in 2005, Weare has garnered commissions from venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, the American Dance Festival, and Jacob’s Pillow, as well as companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Weare’s awards include The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship, The Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award, Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residency & Commission Award, 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, The Djerassi Fellowship, among many others. Since 2020 Weare has been translating her choreographic and aesthetic vision into film with collaborators Jack Flame Sorokin and Brit Worgan. Sorokin and Weare’s first two films, Landfall and Moth, have screened in 37 festivals in 10 countries, winning 9 awards.

website: www.kateweare.com