Based in Northampton, MA, Kate Seethaler currently teaches dance and movement at Springfield College and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. She collaborates and performs with choreographers Deborah Goffe, Katie Martin and Whitney Wilson. Kate also creates her own choreographic work under the newly formed skeleton collaborative, which will launch this year through her participation as Artist in Residence at the School for Contemporary Dance in Northampton, MA. Kate earned her MFA in Dance from Smith College in May 2016. At Smith, she focused her interests on performance and compositional improvisation, studying with Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, and Jennifer Nugent amongst others. Kate has most recently performed in the work of Stephanie Turner, Jennifer Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Joy Davis, and Emily Lukasewski. In 2015, she attended Bates Dance Festival as a collaborator/performer in the work of Kellie Lynch, a BDF Emerging Choreographer. Kate received her full mat and equipment Pilates certification in 2012 at Aldrich Pilates in New Haven, CT. The efficiency and clarity of the body that Pilates training provides continually informs her approach to movement generation. Kate's choreographic work has been performed at Elm City Dance Festival, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Smith College, Springfield College, The Taft School and The Ethel Walker School amongst other venues. Her most recent choreographic interests lie in the dichotomy of exploring a deeply personal and fiercely internal physiological landscape and dismantling the external hierarchy between audience and performer(s). She earned a BA in Dance, with minors in theater and philosophy, from Springfield College in 2008.
Kate Seethaler will soon create her artistic work under the auspices of skeleton collaborative, a newly named—though long-time brewed—idea coming to fruition late spring of 2017. Comprised of an ever-changing, project-based collection of intriguing individuals, Seethaler is the sole constant. Skeleton collaborative generates work collectively by drawing from deeply saturated wells of improvisational proficiency, generating riskiness, thoughtfulness and serious play. Once a rough frame of scores, movements, ideas and themes has emerged, Seethaler utilizes keen eyes and an overexcited heart to chisel away, digging for the solid unflinching bones—the skeleton of the work. Named not only for a love of moving bones (and moving from the bones), skeleton collaborative recognizes that the work rehearsed in the studio is but the skeleton of the live, breathing performance. The muscles, fluids, connective tissues, blood of dance are born in the interactions of “the plan” with the collaborations of honest humanity, sound, the audience and ALL they bring, and whatever is floating in the ether at the moment of live performance. Skeleton collaborative places high values on the senses of humor, raw physicality, refined subtlety and a well-timed stillness. Skeleton collaborative will make its debut this spring in Philadelphia, Northampton, MA and NYC.
