Katherine Helen Fisher
Department
Movement Lab
Katherine Helen Fisher is a dancer, choreographer, creative producer, and Emmy Award-nominated film director. Her work interrogates the intersection of dance and technology, challenging the perceived boundaries between performer and spectator, physical and digital, human and machine. Through participatory performance installations, Fisher interrogates agency, empowerment, and desire, imagining radical techno-feminist futures.
Her distinguished performance history includes the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach.
Fisher’s work has been presented by institutions such as Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Judson Church, The REDCAT, and PBS. As a co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media studio, she has directed projects including One + One Make Three with Kinetic Light, the award-winning film CEILING, and Le Monstre, a wearable performance garment recognized at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
She is a 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award recipient for Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham’s iconic work. Currently, Fisher is a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is curating an exhibition, Hyperreal Futures: Choreographing the Algorithmic Body at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for the reimagined Doris Duke Theater.
Photo Credit: Mark Escribano