PODCAST No.116 – Kathryn Alter
Release Date: 6.20.21
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ABOUT KATHRYN
KATHRYN ALTER attended Interlochen Arts Academy, Purchase College, and obtained her MFA from Hunter College, receiving the Chairman’s Award for artistic excellence in 2020. Her choreographic work has been shown across the United States and abroad. In 2011, Kathryn Alter and Dancers began with the presentation of three solos as a part of the Soliloquios y Diálogos Festival at Los Talleres de Coyoacán in Mexico City. Her most recent choreographic commissions were created in Kansas at Friends University, in Arizona for Instinct Dance Corps, and in Reunion Island at the Conservatorie A Rayonnement Regional. Around NYC, her work has been presented as part of MAD Weekend at Nazareth College, Dance at Socrates in Queens, Spring Movement and PSOH at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, and the American Dance Guild Festival. Ms. Alter is a part of the N.A.D.I.N.E. Projectand helps to organize the Choreographers’ Collective concerts in New York City. She was a 2014 recipient of a CUNY Dance Initiative residency, and a 2018 Dance at Socrates Artist. In 2018, Mrs. Alter was named the Associate Program Director for the Limon Professional Studies Program. She teaches the Limón Company and students of the Limón Institute, has reconstructed the works of José Limón for the Ballet Nacional de México in México City in 2018 and Ballet am Rhein en Düsseldorf in 2020, and leads Limón workshops nationally and internationally. It has been her great pleasure to be a part of the implementation of Limón4Kids in México City as a part of Saludarte. Mrs. Alter was a member of the Limón Dance Company for fifteen years, earning accolades such as: “Watching Ms. Alter devour space…I suddenly remembered how amazing José Limón was.” (Juan Michael Porter II, Dance Enthusiast) and “Exuded a joy that made you want to get onstage and breathe the same air.” (Susan L. Pena, Reading Eagle) Alter was also a founding member of Riedel Dance Theater, danced with Alan Danielson, and Kazuko Hirabayashi. (photo credit: Reiko Yanagi)
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WEBSITE: kathrynalter.com
PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS
Juneau Dance Theatre
SUNY Purchase Dance
Limón Dance Company
Summer Dance Lab
Paul Sanasardo
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Kazuko Hirabayashi
Jonathan Riedel
Brenna Monroe-Cook
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com