Katie Green

Katie Green

After reading English at Cambridge, Katie graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006 and formed her contemporary dance company green bean dance, now Made By Katie Green, in the same year. As well as directing Made By Katie Green, she works as a freelance performer, choreographer and teacher in London, the East Midlands and the East region.

Katie was the recipient of the St Hugh’s Fellowship Award in 2009, with which she plans to make a new piece of dance to be premiered in 2011. She was also an Associate Artist at Dance4 in Nottingham from 2007-9 and won the Pyramid Award for Contemporary Dance in 2006 and a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award in 2007. Her most recent work, Lost and Found, received the award for Best Dance Production at the Buxton Fringe Festival in 2009 and was also a Guardian Pick of the Week. Katie's earlier choreography was nominated for the New Trends prize at the Burgos International Choreography Competition in 2007.

Katie's projects/commissions have included:

  • a commission from Cambridge Contemporary Dance to create a new dance piece for performances at the Cambridge Senate House in December 2009, in collaboration with composer Ewan Campbell and visual artist Issam Kourbaj
  • work with Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner recreating his site-specific work Bodies in Urban Spaces for performances in Loughborough and London in 2009,
  • an Arts Council supported Made By Katie Green project creating new quartet Lost and Found for touring from May - August 2009,
  • a day of creative dance workshops for the Tate Britain's family event Kinetic Tate, inspired by Martin Creed's installation 'Work No. 850' (London, October 2008),
  • a collaborative commission from Grimshaw Architecture Practice for the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), performed at the Royal Academy of Art and in outdoor venues in central London (July 2008); Katie was also invited to speak at LFA conversation events with Royal Academy President Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and senior architect Neven Sidor, and with Channel 4 anchorman Jon Snow, choreographer Prue Lang, and fashion designer Sidney Bryan,
  • movement direction for Oily Cart Theatre Company's hydro-pool piece for children with complex disabilities and on the autistic spectrum (London, May 2008).