Katherine Helen Fisher
Katherine Helen Fisher (born October 1st, 1979) is an American dancer, choreographer and film director working in dance and new media.
Education[edit]
Fisher earned a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts..[1]
Performance[edit]
Fisher has danced professionally with Janis Brenner[2], Jennifer Muller[3], ODC/Dance[4], Pearson Widrig Dance Theater[5], MOMIX, Mark Morris Dance Group[6], Ann Carlson, and Lucinda Childs[7].
From 2012-1014, Fisher was an ensemble member of the Philip Glass opera Einstein On The Beach directed by Robert Wilson (director)[8].
Works[edit]
In 2010, Fisher choreographed Finite & Infinite Games, a collaborative dance for stage and screen shot at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City, titled after the philosophical text by James P. Carse, with stage décor by artist C. Finley, film direction by RJ Muna and fashion by Gai Mattiolo.[9]. Finite & Infinite Games premiered at Art Basel, Basel Switzerland, in June 2010.[10]
In 2011, following the death of her uncle in 9/11, Fisher choreographed and performed in the short film Seven Dolors, directed by Eli Rarey.[11]
In 2015, Fisher directed and choreographed The Codex Project, a stage show at the Baltimore School For The Arts, in a collaboration with composer Marcos Balter and violist Nadia Sirota.[12]
In 2016, Fisher directed CEILING, a short film shot in high speed on the phantom camera in the Angeles Forest, which won the award for Best Screendance Short Under 5 mins.[13] She also co-directed 4 Little Girls, a dance film depicting the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.[14].
The same year, the Georgia Institute of Technology granted her a commission to direct and perform an evening-length solo stage show entitled CHARACTERS.[15] Part of the proposed goal of the commission was to integrate new and emerging technologies that were being developed at the school. As part of this commission, she collaborated with creative technologist Clint Zeagler in partnership with the Wearable Computing Center to create Le Monstre, a responsive performance garment incorporating wearable technology. Le Monstre was subsequently shown at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as part of the ACCelerate Festival.[16] The following year, Le Monstre was also awarded an ISWC Design Exhibition Award in the Aesthetic category.[17]
In 2017, Fisher movement directed the music video for Man of War by Radiohead.[18]. The same year, she also choreographed the music video for Rufus Wainwright's cover of Stevie Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered, directed by Andrew Ondrejcak.[19]
In 2018, Fisher co-directed Reduction Burn[20], a 6-piece multi-channel film featuring choreography by Flora Wiegmann, for installation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles[21]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Artist's Official Website".
- ↑ "Janis Brenner Official Website".
- ↑ "JENNIFER MULLER / THE WORKS".
- ↑ "ODC/DANCE COMPANY PAST MEMBERS".
- ↑ "IN PERFORMANCE: DANCE; For Lot's Wife, When It Rains It Pours". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Dance and Visual Art on Film: Finite and Infinite Games". Huffpost.
- ↑ "Review: 'Available Light' Takes Over an Armory at Philadelphia's Fringe Festival". The New York Times.
- ↑ "An Opera's Real Story Is Its Choreography". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Finite & Infinite Games (2010)". IMDB.
- ↑ "Finite & Infinite Games". Random Bench.
- ↑ "2012 Festival Archive". San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
- ↑ "Baltimore School for the Arts takes bold step with 'Codex Project'". The Baltimore Sun.
- ↑ "2017 AWARD WINNERS". San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
- ↑ "Excerpts of 4 Little Girls: A Dance Film (2016)". IMDB.
- ↑ "When Art and Technology Collide". Georgia Institute of Technology.
- ↑ "Creative Collisions". Accelerate Festival.
- ↑ "ISWC 2017 AWARDS". ISWC.
- ↑ "Radiohead: Man of War (2017)". IMDB.
- ↑ "Hear Rufus Wainwright's Elegant Stevie Wonder Cover for Charity Project". Rolling Stone.
- ↑ "Reduction Burn, Made in L.A., Hammer Museum". Flora Wiegmann.
- ↑ "Signs of the Apocalypse at the Hammer Museum". The New York Times.
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