Photo credit: Zena Bibler
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Katie Schetlick
Katie Baer Schetlick is a dance artist and current Assistant Professor in the Drama Department’s Dance program at the University of Virginia. She engages dance as a mode(s) of being, an historical object, a process of joyous unproductivity, a subversive and a controlling apparatus all at once. Her work has been presented at Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, NADA Hudson, Fleet Moves Dance Festival, Museum Perron Oost, Lublin International Dance Theatres Festival, Cairo Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Ruffin Gallery, and the Welcome Gallery. Katie has facilitated classes and workshops at UVa School of Architecture, New Museum, CLASSCLASSCLASS, Electric Fish Studio, and the Dance Studies Association conference. Her writing has been published in Movement Research Performance Journal, Critical Correspondence and the activist journal, Building Alliances for Social Engagement. As a founding member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, she performed both domestically and internationally at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival and Amman International Dance Festival. During her time in the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, Katie had the pleasure of working with Ronald K. Brown, Francesca Harper, Helen Pickett, Sean Curran, and Yuriko Kikuchi and performing the works of Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, and Hans Van Manen. As a freelance dance artist, Katie has worked with The Francesca Harper Project, Susan Marshall & Company, Athena Kokoronis, Carte Blanche Performance, and Jennifer Hoyt Tidewell. Together with Zena Bibler, Katie is the co-founder and co-director of the Movement Party and Fleet Moves, a site-based dance festival. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University and a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.