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 a preeminent American choreographer whose work merges the mind and the gut through the power and persuasiveness of the human body. Raised by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, CA, Weare draws on visual art sources in her work, as well as 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.

Weare founded KWCo in 2005, gaining national recognition for her unique, articulate vision as a choreographer, and celebrating her company’s 10th Anniversary at BAM in 2015. Based now between New York and Asheville, NC, Weare has been exploring movement on film with her film collaborator Jack Sorokin. In 2021 Weare and Sorokin completed their first film, “Landfall,” and are in production with several more.