Five College Dance Department : Katie Martin

Katie Martin

Katie Martin is a dance artist and a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in Dance, working within the spheres of choreography, performance, education, and movement research. She received her BA with a concentration in Dance at Bennington College, during which time her choreographic work was selected as a finalist in the 2004 American College Dance Festival. Katie also holds an Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Certification from the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica.
Katie has danced in the works of such artists as Mark Dendy, Ann Carlson, Keith Thompson, Dana Reitz, Susan Rethorst, and Meg Wolfe. Her own professional work has been presented at various venues in NYC, including Joyce SoHo Presents, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Symphony Space, Dance Conversations at The Flea Theater, Vision Festival, Performance Mix Festival, Improvised and Otherwise Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, and the Arts Center for the Capital Region and has been supported by several organizations, including the Bumper Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council.
Katie teaches dance and yoga widely and has been a guest artist at Bennington College, Williams College, Southern Vermont College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and The Neurosciences Institute, among others. She continues to work with Susan Sgorbati’s Emergent Improvisation Project, a platform for research, teaching, and performance that investigates time-based art within the framework of natural, complex systems. Katie has performed and taught with EIP at such venues as The Neurosciences Institute, Bennington College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and the 6th International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute. EIP has received support from several organizations, including the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the National Performance Network Creation Fund.
Katie can be seen in such publications as Dance Magazine, Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette (UK), Contredanse/Nouvelles de Danse (Belgium), Contact Quarterly (US), The Record (Albany, NY), Slate Magazine, The Dance Insider, signal to noise, Village Voice, Time Out New York, and on National Public Radio.

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	Katie Martin Katie Martin is a dance artist and a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in Dance, working within the spheres of choreography, performance, education, and movement research. She received her BA with a concentration in Dance at Bennington College, during which time her choreographic work was selected as a finalist in the 2004 American College Dance Festival. Katie also holds an Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Certification from the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Katie has danced in the works of such artists as Mark Dendy, Ann Carlson, Keith Thompson, Dana Reitz, Susan Rethorst, and Meg Wolfe. Her own professional work has been presented at various venues in NYC, including Joyce SoHo Presents, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Symphony Space, Dance Conversations at The Flea Theater, Vision Festival, Performance Mix Festival, Improvised and Otherwise Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, and the Arts Center for the Capital Region and has been supported by several organizations, including the Bumper Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council. Katie teaches dance and yoga widely and has been a guest artist at Bennington College, Williams College, Southern Vermont College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and The Neurosciences Institute, among others. She continues to work with Susan Sgorbati’s Emergent Improvisation Project, a platform for research, teaching, and performance that investigates time-based art within the framework of natural, complex systems. Katie has performed and taught with EIP at such venues as The Neurosciences Institute, Bennington College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and the 6th International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute. EIP has received support from several organizations, including the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the National Performance Network Creation Fund. Katie can be seen in such publications as Dance Magazine, Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette (UK), Contredanse/Nouvelles de Danse (Belgium), Contact Quarterly (US), The Record (Albany, NY), Slate Magazine, The Dance Insider, signal to noise, Village Voice, Time Out New York, and on National Public Radio.