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| Katherine Kirk (Photo: Kelly Snyder) |
A brown black woman, facing right, looking straight ahead. She has a shaved head and stands in front of a black background.
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| Katherine Kirk, left; Tamisha A. Guy, right, in duet Motor Rover (Photo: Whitney Brown) |
from Motor Roveris Kyle Abraham’s new work with AIM, which features two black female dancers. The dancer on the left has a shaved head and is wearing olive pants and a top. She puts her hands on her chest and looks straight to the right. The dancer on the right, wearing dark gray clothing, extends her right hand and looks down to the right.
Like her bestie Tamisha Guy, the Dallas native who spoke on our last episode Catherine Kirk Kyle Abraham is a ten-year veteran of AIM and an exciting performer. Kirk describes himself as “a versatile artist” who is fascinated by the stories and questions of “why humans are the way we are.”
Listen to Catherine Kirk’s episode body and soul podcast here.
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| Catherine Kirk at if we were a love song (Photo: Christopher Dugan) |
A black woman wearing a dark gray dress. Face your body to the left, tilt your arms downward, and straighten your legs.
Catherine Kirk (She/Her) was born on the unceded lands of the Kickapoi and Wichita peoples, now known as Dallas, Texas. She began formal dance studies at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and then graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of Dance. Katherine is a multi-talented person who is also a dance producer, marketing strategist, arts administrator, dance educator and yoga teacher. Kirk completed seasonal programs at the San Francisco School of Dance, the Movement Invention Project, and Montreal Springboard Dance Academy, where she performed works by Fernando Melo, Ohad Naharin, and Sharon Eyal. After graduation, Katherine apprenticed with Sidra Bell Dance in New York and has since collaborated and performed with Danakah Dance, UNA Productions, Burr Johnson, Jasmine Hearn and Helen Simoneau Danse. She is excited to be working with AIM as a Marketing Assistant. Catherine joined AIM in 2013 from Kyle Abraham.
For more information on Kyle Abraham’s AIM, click here.
