American Choreographer Kate Foley to visit with the 2006 Collective.
Choreographer, Dancer, Director, Filmmaker, and Teacher Kate
Foley is currently developing dance projects that incorporate
multiple media. Of special interest to Ms. Foley are international
community building projects. From 1986-1989, she founded and
directed dance companies in New York and San Francisco, and in
1991, she founded the nonprofit organization House of Dance, Inc.
to promote dance in various forms. She produced and directed
house of dance, a cable television series serving the dance community
in San Francisco. As resident choreographer for Ulysses Theatre in
Croatia, Ms. Foley worked on large scale productions of King Lear (2001)
and Medea (2002). A practitioner of Iyengar yoga since 1982, she
teaches in a wide variety of contexts including universities, clinics,
prisons and dance festivals. Originally from Seattle, her grants and
honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, three National Endowment for
the Arts Choreography Fellowships, and a National Initiative to Preserve
American Dance Fellowship in Video Documentation.
Foley is currently developing dance projects that incorporate
multiple media. Of special interest to Ms. Foley are international
community building projects. From 1986-1989, she founded and
directed dance companies in New York and San Francisco, and in
1991, she founded the nonprofit organization House of Dance, Inc.
to promote dance in various forms. She produced and directed
house of dance, a cable television series serving the dance community
in San Francisco. As resident choreographer for Ulysses Theatre in
Croatia, Ms. Foley worked on large scale productions of King Lear (2001)
and Medea (2002). A practitioner of Iyengar yoga since 1982, she
teaches in a wide variety of contexts including universities, clinics,
prisons and dance festivals. Originally from Seattle, her grants and
honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, three National Endowment for
the Arts Choreography Fellowships, and a National Initiative to Preserve
American Dance Fellowship in Video Documentation.
