Instagram story viewer> @katewearedance> Tagged

Kate Weare Dance Company

@katewearedance

4.1K

followers

3457

following

Guggenheim Award-Winner Kate Weare's NYC #dance company. Unearthing culture's shifting views on gender, sexuality & power.

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

On Dynamic Balance, Lucidity & Answering The Call: A Reflection from Sue Schroeder, Artistic Director, Part 3

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Together with Core Dance, I welcome you to join the Dance and effect change in the world alongside these artists, among many, as part of our 2026-27 Season.

LIFT Artists in Residence – Versaille Jones, Jodie Jernigan and Alex Spitzer. https://www.coredance.org/core-artists-in-residence

Conversations with Jeff Arnal (US) & Dietrich Eichmann (DE), Lonnie Holley, Ethan Payne & Matt Arnett (US), Jodie Jernigan (US), Lucy Suggate & Charlie Ford (UK), Kate Weare (US), Lisa Harris (US), Cherie Carson& David Creach (US), Erika Senft Miller & Kelly Holt (US) and Versaille Jones (US) https://www.coredance.org/1830estartiststalk

Filmmakers - Adam Larsen, Lonnie Holley/Matt Arnett/Ethan Payne, Polly Motley & Molly Davies, Kate Weare, George King, Cherie Carson & David Creech and Erika Senft Miller & Kelly Holt. https://www.coredance.org/reel-art

Artists in Morning Class, sharing Movement Practices, Investigations & Histories – Luciana Arias, Jodie Jernigan and Kristin O’Neal: https://www.coredance.org/core-classes

Support Great Art from Around the World
Support Core Dance
https://donate.coredance.org/checkout/3369

15

0

“Because of working with Lula, I didn’t wait for someone to give me a grant or a performance opportunity. If I had waited, I would never have started a company,” says Kia Smith of her first director, Lula Washington.

Smith, the founder and director of @southchicagodancetheatre, reflects on her 3 mentors at the link in our bio. 💚

📝: As told to @jendnce
📸: Kia Smith. Photo by Michelle Reid, courtesy Smith
📸: (2-4) photos courtesy Smith
📸: Photo by Michelle Reid, Courtesy Smith.

#Whatmyteachertaughtme #Danceteacher #danceeducation #dancers

Descriptions
1) Kia Smith sits in front of a dark background wearing a yellow, ruffled skirt and a black button-down shirt. Text: What My Teacher Taught Me: South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia Smith On Her 3 Dance Mentors
2) Text: —Kia Smith on her early ballet teacher, August Tye “August is someone that looks out for people and takes care of them, and that impacted me. She really invested in me, even though I was not the star student.”
3) Text: —Kia Smith on her former director, Lula Washington “I watched Lula create things from nothing, or have a disappointment and bounce back to have something wonderful come out of it. Her hustle, mentality, faith, and resilience were instilled in me.”
4) Text: —Kia Smith on her mentor, Kate Weare “Kate has reminded me over the years to carve out space for myself as an artist, because that’s what will drive my work forward, like a compass.”
5) A group of performers form a pyramid on a dark stage under a spotlight. A performer in a light-colored dress stands at the top with arms outstretched. Text: Read the full article at
the link in our bio!

196

13

Huge thank you to Dance Teacher Magazine for featuring SCDT’s @kia_s_smith and 3 her of her most influential teachers in this month’s issue!
#DanceTeacherMagazine #WomenThatInspire #SCDT #SouthChicagoDanceTheatre

Author @jendnce

68

3

Always lovely to catch up with WOFFFers in the wild.

This weekend Nuala met Risa, the central participant in the documentary RISA by @katewearedance and @JackFlameSorokin winner of the WOFFF25 Best Documentary, featuring the tiny and mighty @RisaSteinberg.

Over tea @TheGoodEgg they talked dance, choreography and teaching - elements explored in the gorgeous black & white RISA documentary - and then segued onto vocations and mothering and bones and life, love & work as we age.

What a brilliant Saturday morning filled with all the blues. Haste ye back, Risa! 2 older white women sit outside a London cafe at a table. They're smiling. In front of them on the table are 2 pots of tea and 2 teacups. Both women are wearing some blue and they're sitting behind a blue table, near a blue door.

64

4

We are excited to share the fourteen films selected for enCore: Dance on Film 2026 from our fantastic pool of submissions ✨

Congratulations to these filmmakers and their creative teams. We can’t wait to share more about how you can screen the full festival online and in-person coming soon!

Stay tuned to get a look at each film and filmmaker 📣

#CoreDance #enCoreDanceOnFilm #enCore #enCore2026

55

0

COMING SOON!

enCore: Dance on Film 2026 is almost here.

We are thrilled to share that this season included 73 submissions from 24 countries around the world🌎

Stay tuned, because the list of our fourteen officially selected films is coming soon!

Thank you to our adjudicators for their work in reviewing and selecting this year’s films.

#CoreDance #enCoreDanceOnFilm #enCore #enCore2026 #DanceFilmFestival

34

2

We’re back at Good Shepherd Studios in Leytonstone today with some short films and creative activities. It’s free to join and we would love to see you.

From 2pm it’s chair-based yoga-inspired exercise.

At 3pm it’s time for hot drinks and snacks, followed by two short films celebrating age, movement and creativity:

🎥 Ode to Age (dir. Kati Kallio)
The ageing body can be wild, free and beautiful. A gang of older women discard the beige clothes on offer and instead leap into the Finnish summer in full technicolour.

🎥 RISA (dirs. Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin)
An intimate portrait of renowned American dancer and teacher Risa Steinberg. In her New York City apartment, she dances and talks her way from room to room, reflecting on her prolific and ongoing career in the dance world.

No need to book, just drop in to Good Shepherd Studios in Leytonstone from 2pm.

These screenings in our local community are possible because of the support we receive from @tnlcommunityfund 🩷

4

0

Strong leadership helps organizations grow to new heights! We want to introduce the amazing board members that have joined us during our 2025-2026 Season.

Glenn Edgerton - @gedgerdance - Former Artistic Director, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Netherlands Dance Theater

Liz Betty - @ldbetty - Associate Director of Advancement, Judge Memorial High School

Lehua Estrada - @lehuaestradadances - Instructor, Judge Memorial High School, Shirley Ririe Chair

Kate Weare - @katewearedance - Artistic Director, Kate Weare Company, Joan Woodbury Chair

A huge welcome to these amazing trustees!

82

1

🎬 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵 goes to the movies!

We dispatched @staceymenchelkussell to the 2026 Dance on Camera festival by @dancefilms, and she said, “Of the works I saw, three pieces in particular demonstrated the diversity of expression in dance cinema.”

Read the rest: 𝚠𝚠𝚠.𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎-𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚊𝚜𝚝.𝚌𝚘𝚖

📷:
1-2: Risa Steinberg. Poster and flm still from “RISA”
3 - The Limón Dance Company in Aszure Barton’s “Join.” Film still from “Through Memory”
4 - “DuEls.” Photo: Antero Hein

#dancenthusiast
#danceoncamera
#dancefilm
#nycdance
#dance

52

4

We are 3 DAYS away from the submission deadline for enCore: Dance on Film 2026 🎉🫢

Screened annually since 2014, enCore presents a selection of fascinating independent video dance productions and serves as a platform for dance films which feature dance & the moving body exclusively for, and with, the camera.

This is your reminder to submit your original dance films for consideration to be a part of the festival!

Visit the link in our bio to read the full submission information and submit your film before the deadline ✨📖

#CoreDance #EnCore #DanceOnFilm #Screendance #FilmFestival

20

0

There’s still time to submit to enCore: Dance on Film 2026, presented by Core Dance, but the window is closing.

Core Dance invites short dance films of all styles and approaches, from intimate, site-responsive works to experimental and hybrid pieces that explore the dynamic relationship between movement and camera 🎥

If you’ve created a film that lives beyond the stage, this is an opportunity to share it with a global audience!

Know an artist whose work should be seen? Pass this along.

Submissions close February 28 📣

#CoreDance #EnCore #ScreenDance #DanceOnFilm #FilmFestival

22

0

Introducing our final enCore: Dance on Film Adjudicator, Kate Weare 🙌🏻

The deadline to submit your original screendance work is coming up soon. Submit your work by February 28 to be a part of enCore 2026!

⬇️

Kate Weare is a preeminent American choreographer renowned for her striking blend of formal choreographic technique and visceral interpretation. Weare founded Kate Weare Company in New York City in 2005 as a vehicle for her choreographic research, while creating commissions for companies around the world such as The Jose Limon Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre, Union Tanguera, The Juilliard School, The Cincinnati Ballet, and Buzz Dance Theatre, among many others.

Awards include The Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship, Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residency & Commission, The Joyce Theater Creative Residency Award (2016, 2014, 2011), The Aninstantia Foundation Fellowship, White Bird’s Barney Choreographic Prize, CalArts Inaugural Evelyn Sharp Summer Residency Award, The MANCC Fellowship Award, The Jacob’s Pillow Residency Award, NC Arts Council Fellowship and The Djerassi Fellowship. Teaching includes: Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, CalArts, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., among many others.

Weare earned a BFA from CalArts, dancing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City in 1998. Based now between New York and Asheville, NC, Weare is exploring dance on film with collaborators Jack Flame Sorokin and Brit Worgan. To date, Weare and Sorokin have produced 4 films, “Landfall,” “Moth,” “RISA,” and “KIA,” garnering 12 awards and 52 premieres in festivals around the world. Weare and Worgan are in production with their first film, “New Home,” supported by The Princess Grace Foundation.

#CoreDance #enCore #DanceOnFilm #ScreenDance #FilmFestival

67

1