Kathryn Posin

Kathryn Posin is an American choreographer known for her musical and sculptural fusing of ballet and modern dance genres. She studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, and Hanya Holm, and made her choreographic debut in 1967 at the 92nd Street. YM-YWHA's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall. Ms. Posin's 50+ works have been performed by her own Kathryn Posin Dance Company and around the world by the Nederlands Dans Theater, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Eliot Feld Ballet, Balletmet, Ballet West, Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah, the Extemporary Dance Company of London, the National Ballet of Bulgaria, and ballet companies in Ohio, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Louisville, Nevada, and Hartford. Her choreography for theater includes Salvation with Bette Midler and Richard Gere, and The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center, directed by Andrei Serban and starring Meryl Streep and Raul Julia. Ms. Posin's work has been acknowledged with a 2012 Fulbright Fellowship, a GuggenhimGuggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Humphrey Fellowship from American Dance Festival, a Jewish Studies Grant from the Gallatin School at NYU, and grants from the America for Bulgaria Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance. She is on the faculty of the Gallatin School at NYU.