Kate Lawrence
Lecturer, BA Programme Director
Qualifications:
BA (Laban Centre, London, 1989)
Contact:
Email: k.lawrence@surrey.ac.uk
Telephone: 01483 686508
Personal Statement:
Kate Lawrence was director of feminist dance company Nomads in the 1990's, creating and performing in 3 full evening works which toured in Britain and Europe.
She now lectures on the BA and MA programmes at the University of Surrey and is MA Programme Director. Her recent performance work has been site specific: a collaboration in 2001 with a visual artist at a ruined medieval chapel and vertical dance works High Art (2002), Highconography (2008) and Descent of the Angel (2009). Kate has published two peer-reviewed essays in the area of site-specific dance (see publications). She is currently pursuing doctoral study into Vertical Dance and teaches the first British undergraduate module in Vertical Dance at the University of Surrey. Vertical dance combines dance with the equipment and movement of rock climbing. Kate makes dance performances that use the walls of buildings as her ‘floor’ and uses the opportunity of being suspended from above to ‘fly’.
Kate has been a rock climber for 12 years and is qualified as a single pitch rock climbing instructor. She was originally inspired by Nikki Smedley's production Rock (1994) and has more recently been influenced by working with Wanda Moretti (Italy) and Lindsey Butcher (Brighton) in her approach to harness work.
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