about

kt williams is an interdisciplinary dance artist, educator, choreographer, and dance filmmaker based in Chicago, IL.

She is fascinated by the body’s tendency to embody certain influences of history, space, and emotion over time, and her research examines holistic and healthy ways of translating held experiences, memories, or contexts through movement and experiential performance.

kt 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. Creatively and pedagogically, kt plays with repetition, duration, deconstruction, and regeneration to discover new avenues of movement creation, artistic expression, and performance presence.

Choreographically, kt researches methods that dynamically blend technical rigor, 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.

kt believes that dancemaking itself is a social practice, and her teaching and creative practices thrive on community connection. 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.