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Kathryn Posin is an American choreographer of modern and ballet works. She is known for her originality in blending the idioms of ballet and contemporary dance in a sophisticated manner while retaining a quirky edge. In addition to choreographing, she has also taught technique and composition at several American universities.

Training and Early Career

Born in Butte, Montana to Frances Schweitzer and noted Physicist/Educator/TV personality Daniel Q. Posin. Kathryn received her high school education at University of Chicago Laboratory School, a BA in Dance from Bennington College and a MA in Interdisciplinary and Multi-Cultural Dance from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Kathryn studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham and Hanya Holm. She studied ballet with Stone-Camryn's School of Ballet, Margaret Black and David Howard.

She formed the Kathryn Posin Dance Company in 1973 and has made over 60 works for it. She was Founding Chair of The Joffrey/ New School BFA in 2000. In 1991, she became the first international choreographer to make a work for Cloudgate Dance Theater, the National Company of Taiwan. Her most well-know works are Waves, commissioned by the American Dance Festival, Stepping Stones, with composer Joan Tower  and Scheherazade commissioned by the Milwaukee Ballet.

Dance and Theater Career

Kathryn danced Deserts, Time +7, Memories, Tribute, And the Disciples Departed with the Anna Sokolow Dance company in 1967 and 1968. She has made works for Netherlands Dance Theater and two works for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and for the Eliot Feld Ballet, the Milwaukee, Sacramento, Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville and Kansas City Ballets, Nevada Ballet Theater and for BalletMet of Columbus, Ohio.

Ms. Posin’s theatre career includes the hit rock musical Salvation, with Joe Morton, Bette Midler and Richard Gere. She also choreographed the dance for Andrei Serbans’s The Cherry Orchard, at Lincoln Center with Meryl Streep, Raul Julia and Irene Worth. She choreographed Arena Stage’s 1983 production of Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by David Chambers with Kathleen Turner, and Avery Brooks.

Awards

The Kathryn Posin Dance Company has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Jerome Robbins Award, The Doris Humphrey Fellowship , and a Bennington College Choreographer's Grant. The company was also awarded 14 NEA Fellowships and Company Grants from 1974 to 1987, and received frequent support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Ms Posin received a Fulbright Fellowship to Bulgaria in 2012.

Current

Ms. Posin is currently Professor of World Dance and the Art of Choreography at the Gallatin School at NYU. The KPDC has been invited by 92Y to open the Kaufman Concert Hall to Dance in February 2012. Appearing with Ms Posin’s 9 member dance company are guest artists Meredith Monk and Theo Bleckmann in Ms. Monk’s Facing North.

Choreography and Staging Credits


 * Voices of Bulgaria and America 2014 at the 92 St.
 * Scheherazade 2014 National Ballet of Bulgaria in Doha, Quatar Opera House
 * Scheherazade 2012 Fulbright Fellowship, National Ballet of Bulgaria
 * Stepping Stones 2011 National Ballet of Bulgaria, with Sara-Nora Krysteva, Artistic Director
 * Time 2 Tango 2010 Eglevsky Ballet of Long Island, Marina Eglevsky, Artistic Director
 * You Are Variations 2010 The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard, Wendy Tauscher Artistic Director
 * Time 2 Tango 2009 Boston Conservatory commissioned, Artistic Director: Yasuko Tokunaga
 * Bulgarian Wedding 2007 Ballet Grandiva, Artistic Director: Victor Trevino, tour of Japan
 * Scheherazade 2004 - 2006 The Milwaukee Ballet, The Nevada Ballet, The Sacramento Ballet, The Louisville Ballet, Sacramento Ballet
 * Stepping Stones 2003 Kansas City Ballet, Artistic Director: William Whitener
 * Scheherazade 2002 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Michael Pink
 * The Seasons 2002 Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Director: Marcia Dale Weary
 * John Adams Violin Concerto 2000 The Sacramento Ballet, Director: Ron Cunningham
 * Stepping Stones 2000 Kansas City Ballet, Director: William Whitener
 * Bridge of Song 1999 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Simon Dow
 * Tehillim 1999 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Simon Dow
 * John Adams Violin Concerto 1997 Ballet Builders, New York City
 * Bach's Lunch 1996 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Basil Thompson
 * Four World Songs 1996 The Sarasota Ballet, Director: Robert De Warren
 * Stepping Stones 1995 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Basil Thompson
 * The Rainforest 1994 Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, New York City, Director: Sylvia Waters
 * Stepping Stones 1993 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Dane La Fontsee
 * Repercussions 1991 Cloudgate Dance Theater, Taipei, Taiwan, Director: Lin Hwi Min
 * Of Rage and Remembrance 1990 Milwaukee Ballet, Director: Dane La Fontsee
 * Hunger and Thirst 1990 Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Director: Sylvia Waters
 * Waves 1986 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Director: Alvin Ailey
 * Later That Day 1981 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, NYC commissioned Director: Alvin Ailey
 * Brandenburg 1981 Ballet West, Salt Lake City, Utah, Director: Bruce Marks
 * "Ich Ruf Zu Dir" and Waves 1980 Netherlands Dance Theater, The Hague, Director: Jiri Kylian
 * Waves 1979 Eliot Feld Ballet, New York City, Director: Eliot Feld
 * The Closer She Gets The Better She Looks 1979 Julliard Dance Ensemble, Director: Martha Hill
 * Waves 1975 American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, Director: Charles Reinhart

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