About Us
Kate Weare Company charts a contemporary view of humanism by placing women at the center of the human story amidst the violence, sensuality and yearning for intimacy that mark our age. Weare’s work explores the undercurrents in relationships - both tender and stark - by drawing on our most basic urges to move and decode movement. Weare creates a communion between director and performer in order to mine the body’s instinct for truth-telling: our need for safety, our intelligence about who we are as individuals, our longing to connect, our desire to be seen.
Since 2005, Kate Weare Company has toured extensively throughout the United States to a wide range of audiences, gathering experiences and insights to help shape our process and priorities. Our mission includes creating live dance and dance film from a feeling of authenticity; a desire to explore across borders and mediums; a commitment to collaborating as a means to grow; a belief that dance can be aesthetically uncompromising, communicative and inclusive all at once. Form is meaning, but emotional content is how we connect it all.
Artistic Director Kate Weare is recognized as a preeminent American choreographer known for her startling combination of formal choreographic value and visceral, emotional interpretation. She founded Kate Weare Company in New York City in 2005 as a vehicle for her choreographic research, while creating commissions for other companies such as The Jose Limon Dance Company, The Juilliard School, Cincinnati Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Union Tanguera (France), Ririe-Woodbury Dance Theater, GroundWorks Dance Theater and ODC/Dance, among many others.
Weare’s awards include 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, The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship, NC Arts Council Fellowship, White Bird’s Barney Choreographic Prize, CalArts Inaugural Evelyn Sharp Summer Residency Award, The MANCC Fellowship Award, The Jacob’s Pillow Residency Award and The Djerassi Fellowship. Teaching includes: Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, CalArts, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., among others.
Raised by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, CA, Weare draws on visual art sources in her work along with language, poetry, contemporary music, psychology, and above all, nature. Weare earned a BFA from CalArts and subsequently danced 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 has been exploring dance on film with filmmaker Jack Flame Sorokin. In 2021 Weare and Sorokin completed their first two films, “Landfall,” and “Moth,” and are in production with several more.