Kathryn “Kitty” Daniels

Department Chair

Contemporary Issues in Dance

kdaniels@cornish.edu

206.726.5080

Kitty began her professional career as a ballet dancer, performing with companies in the United States and Europe. She continued her performing career in modern dance, performing with the Bill Evans Dance Company, Concert Dance Company of Boston, and Beth Soll and Dancers as well as numerous Seattle independent choreographers, including Pat Graney, Long Nguyen, Erin Matthiessen, and Wade Madsen. Nationally known as a teacher of ballet, modern dance, and dance science, she has taught at the Bill Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and Teachers Intensives, California State University Summer Arts Programs, London Contemporary Dance School, University of Washington, Boston University, Mount Holyoke College, and Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts. She has been an invited presenter at conferences of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, the National Dance Education Organization, the National Dance Association, Not Just Any Body and Soul, Dance USA, National Association of Schools of Dance, Performing Artists Medical Association and CORPS De Ballet among others. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, Journal of Dance Education and Dance Teacher. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science. Kitty has worked clinically as assistant to dance kinesiologist Karen Clippinger. She holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA in Dance Kinesiology from Lesley College. She is a member of the Council of Dance Administrators, the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National Dance Education Organization and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.