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{{short description|American choreographer (born 1972)}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Kate Weare
| image       =
| caption     =
| birth_date  = May 21, 1972
| birth_place = Oakland, California
| education   = [[CalArts]] (BFA '94)
| occupation  = [[choreographer]], [[artistic director]]
| known_for   = founder, Kate Weare Company
}}
'''Kate Weare''' is an American [[choreographer]]. She is the founder and [[artistic director]] of the '''Kate Weare Company'''.<ref name="Kate Weare Company">[http://www.kateweare.com Kate Weare Company]</ref>
==Early life and education==
Weare was raised in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].<ref name="DanceMag 2008">{{cite news | url = http://dancemagazine.com/issues/August-2008/Quick-QA-Kate-Weare | title = Quick Q&A: Kate Weare | work = [[Dance Magazine]] | author = Perron, Wendy | date = August 2008 | access-date = 2012-02-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111209145418/http://dancemagazine.com/issues/August-2008/Quick-QA-Kate-Weare | archive-date = 2011-12-09 | url-status = dead }}</ref> She attended the [[California Institute of the Arts]], earning a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] degree in 1994.<ref name="Joyce" />
==Career==
Kate Weare has presented her choreography globally, in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Belgrade and Vienna.<ref>[http://www.mancc.org Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography]</ref> Upon moving to New York City in 2000, she was twice asked to present work by [[Dance Theater Workshop]], and presented work at [[Joyce Soho]], [[Danspace]] at St. Mark's Church, [[Judson Church]], DancemOpolitan at Joe's Pub, The 92nd St. Y, The Puffin Room, New York University's Frederick Loewe Theater, [[The Kitchen]], WAX, BAX, and La Mama. She has collaborated and shared her concerts with many choreographers such as [[Paul Taylor (choreographer)|Paul Taylor]] and Karl Anderson.<ref>[http://iipa.chadwyck.com International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA)]</ref>
While she is a [[minimalist]] choreographer, emotionally she explores the areas of love, femininity, strength and sexuality.  Her movement ranges from seductive partnering<ref name=Seibert/> and strong lifts, to witty gestures and lush movement phrases.  She is interested in the kind of theatrical dance wherein narrative is implied but never specified and gives evidence of having thought deeply and fruitfully about her intentions. The [[New York Times]] noted: "Ms. Weare is simply the choreographer of her own piece."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/arts/dance/03bald.html | title = Dance Review: Ivy Baldwin and Kate Weare | work = [[The New York Times]] | author = Rockwell, John | date = March 3, 2006}}</ref>
==Kate Weare Company==
In 2005, she founded the Kate Weare Company in [[New York City]].<ref name="Joyce">{{cite web | url = http://www.joyce.org/joycesoho/residency_creative.php#weare | title = Kate Weare | publisher = Joyce SoHo Artist Residency Program | accessdate = February 25, 2012 | archive-date = May 15, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120515112511/http://www.joyce.org/joycesoho/residency_creative.php#weare | url-status = dead }}</ref> The company's dancers include Leslie Kraus, Douglas Gillespie, Bergen Wheeler, Luke Murphy, T.J. Spaur, and Adrian Clark.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kateweare.com/company | title = Company Artists | publisher = Kate Weare Company | accessdate = February 25, 2012}}</ref>
==Awards==
In 1999, San Francisco's Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominated Weare for her duet Skin/Skin. In 2001, Zwei, a film created with Canadian filmmaker Kenji Ouellet, screened at the Dancing for Camera Festival at the [[American Dance Festival]], [[Dance Theater Workshop]]’s Film Festival and was an award finalist for the Dance on Camera Screening at [[Lincoln Center]].<ref name="Kate Weare Company" /> She was awarded with the 2006/2007 Joyce Soho Residency, and Gwen Welliver mentored her in the studio.
Weare was a 2009 [[Princess Grace Awards]] winner.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pgfusa.org/view_alum.php?alum_id=2721 | title = Kate Weare | publisher = Princess Grace Foundation-USA }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography.<ref>{{Cite web|title = John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Kate Weare|url = http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kate-weare/|website = www.gf.org|accessdate = 2015-09-13}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Seibert>{{cite news
| last =Seibert
| first =Brian
| title =Watching the Choreographer's Mind Churn
| newspaper =New York Times
| location =New York, United States
| pages =
| publisher =
| date =25 March 2013
| url =https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/arts/dance/harkness-dance-festival-at-the-92nd-street-y.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Farts%2Fdance%2Findex.jsonp
| accessdate = 28 March 2013}}</ref>
}}
==External links==
* [http://www.kateweare.com Kate Weare Company]
* [http://www.axisdance.org Axis Dance Company]
* [http://www.dtw.org Dance Theater Workshop]
===Reviews===
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0352,jowitt,49682,14.html Dance review by Debra Jowitt on When Feathers Fly (Village Voice, December 2003)]{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0410,footnotes,51650,14.html Dance review by Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Village Voice, March 2004)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017155339/http://villagevoice.com/dance/0410,footnotes,51650,14.html |date=2006-10-17 }}
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0520,webjowitt,63996,14.html Dance review by Debra Jowitt on Letter? Letter (Village Voice, May 2005)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821114723/http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0520,webjowitt,63996,14.html |date=2007-08-21 }}
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[[Category:Princess Grace Awards winners]]
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