about
kt williams is a contemporary dancer, educator, choreographer, and interdisciplinary collaborator based in Chicago, IL.
She is fascinated by the influences history, space, and emotion hold on the body, and she researches how movement can translate individual human conditions and experiences. kt’s pedagogical and creative processes encourage an exploration of self, boundaries, and relationship; her embodied practice places a high priority on internal reflection and questions how she exists in relationship to space and to her surrounding environment.
kt’s creative process is largely informed by her pedagogical practice. She is a practitioner of Safety Release Technique and her creative and pedagogical work is informed by somatic practices, including Bartenieff Fundamentals, the Feldenkrais Method, Cortical Field Re-Education, and Pilates. kt constantly searches for intersections between deconstruction, regeneration, and viscerality to discover new avenues of movement creation and experiential performance.
Choreographically, kt works through themes of tension, release, self-maintenance, locating boundaries, and experiencing presence. Her choreographic research relies on making work that dynamically blends concert dance, experiential performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She considers dance as a site for collective transformation, and believes virtuosity is found through blending highly physical movement with intentional, functional performance tasks.
She is interested in creating socially-engaged performance and immersive dance spaces that not only blur traditional codes of contemporary dance performance, but cultivate a sense of collective transformation for both viewer and performer. Her pedagogical, artistic, and scholarly practice is collaborative in nature, as she genuinely believes working in community fosters the wellbeing and sustainability of the artist-citizen.