About Me
I am a dance artist, choreographer, and somatic educator researching the intersections of ecological consciousness, visceral physicality, and communal presence. With care and a pursuit of radiance, I utilize dance as process-centered inquiry, asking how the body can re-sense and re-form kinship with the environments in which we inhibit. I see the body as both an archive and ecosystem, where training and experience evolve and reogranize through movement.
In my work, I unify my scientific and psychological research interests with years of teaching and training in pilates, functional movement, ballet, and a range of modern, postmodern, and contemporary dance techniques. My process draws from a modern dance lineage, ecosomatic practice, somatic education, and interdisciplinary research. Athleticism and intellect entwine, infusing rigor and reflection, flow and freedom across stage, site-specific, and film contexts, with the goal of generating new movement pedagogy to help train the next generation of dancers.
Using images from nature, such as roots, clouds, water, and sunlight, my choreography explores grief and resilience, looking at loss and renewal. Through collaborations, workshops, and teaching, I invite people to experience movement as a form of personal and collective ecosystem repair.
My work has been performed in Los Angeles and New York, including the International Women’s Day Festival in LA, and has received the Golden Key in Choreography from Marymount Manhattan College. I am currently an MFA candidate in Choreographic Inquiry at UCLA. In a time of environmental and political unraveling in the US, my work turns to the body’s natural abilities and its potential to imagine more connected, regenerative futures.
Bios and CV
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Kate Myers is a Los Angeles–based contemporary choreographer, dancer, educator, ecosomatic researcher, and Pilates instructor. Myers is a current MFA candidate in Choreographic Inquiry in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Her research focuses on the lineage of an ecosomatic habitus, which centers bodily insight, for choreographic innovation. Her first evening length show, VESTIBULE, will be presented April 3rd and 4th in Glorya Kaufman Theater at UCLA. She also holds a B.F.A. in Dance with concentrations in Choreography and Modern from Marymount Manhattan College (NYC), where she was also awarded the sole Gold Key for Choreography and Psychology Award for her creation of an improvisational movement class for adolescents with Autism. Her work explores dance as a multifaceted inquiry, investigating the intersections of movement, kinesiology, psychology, and ecology. Myers most recently danced as a soloist for Alive and Well Productions and performed The Four Seasons of Hamadan in SF and LA in 2025.
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Kate Myers is a Los Angeles–based contemporary choreographer, dancer, educator, ecosomatic researcher, and Pilates instructor. Myers is currently an MFA Candidate in Choreographic Inquiry in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA and is teaching Topics in Body Mechanics, Beginning Modern/PostModern, and Ballet there. Her research focuses on the intersections of ecological consciousness, visceral physicality, and communal presence. Her capstone, VESTIBULE, will take place on April 3rd and 4th, 2026 in Glorya Kaufman Hall, Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater. This work employs her movement pedagogy of Rooting, Flowing, and Beaming, as the structure for the regeneration of the performers personal and collective ecosystem.
Myers holds a B.F.A. in Dance with concentrations in Choreography and Modern from Marymount Manhattan College (NYC). At MMC, she was the sole recipient of two awards, the Gold Key for Choreography and the Psychology Award for her creation of an improvisational movement class for adolescents with Autism. Her choreography has been commissioned by Art Bath (NYC), the OhioDance Festival, YDI 2023 (Michigan), and MashUp’s 2025 International Women’s Day Festival (LA).
As a performer, Myers has worked with numerous renowned choreographers and companies including Peter Chu, Alexandra Damiani, Sonya Tayeh, Andrew Winghart, Paul Taylor, Will Rawls, Milka Djordjevich, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Myers was also pro assistant for West Coast Dance Explosion and has taught contemporary, ballet, modern, improvisation, ecosomatics, and injury prevention classes at many intensives and dance studios all around the United States. In the past year she had the honor of assisting Debroah Hay at the Getty for the performance of Solo Duo (2024) and toured California as a soloist for Alive and Well Productions in The Four Seasons of Hamadan alongside violinist Yvette Holzwarth.
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