Bio:
Katie Faulkner received her MFA in dance performance & choreography from Mills College in 2002. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2000, Katie has performed the works of Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, June Watanabe, Kim Epifano, Victoria Marks, Randee Paufve, and Ann Carlson. She has worked with several of these choreographers as a dancer with AXIS Dance Company with whom she performed both locally and nationally from 2003-2007. In addition to performing, she has received numerous choreographic commissions and has served on the faculty at Mills College, Santa Clara University, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Marin Ballet and the University of San Francisco. In 2005 she formed little seismic dance company, a small, contemporary dance company dedicated to creating work for the stage and screen. Since it’s inception, little seismic, has performed in venues and festivals throughout California, receiving generous support from granting organizations and residency programs. little seismic will be beginning a three-year residency program with San Francisco’s ODC Theater in the fall of 2008.
Filmography: *click titles to view
Choreographed/Directed by Katie Faulkner
Cinematography by JC Earle
Featuring: Stephanie Ballas, Janet Das,
Katie Faulkner, Rebecca Gilbert
Screenings: CounterPULSE 2006
(little seismic debut season)
Choreographed/Directed by Katie Faulkner
Cinematography by Benjamin Goldman
Featuring: Katie Faulkner & Private Freeman
Screenings: CounterPULSE 2008
(little seismic home season), WestWave Dance Festival 2008, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
“As a choreographer, I believe that the body in motion carries with it it’s own truth telling, and that the way we move reveals who we are, both alone and in relationship. The parallels between our social interactions and the physical dynamics of the natural world are what led to little seismic’s name. Based in a city, so precariously perched on a latticework of fault lines, we can be quickly reminded of our shared vulnerability, by the thing that could bring us all so impartially to our knees. little seismic’s work explores the pressures we exert on ourselves and on each other and how small, seismic shifts between us can spark surprising and unalterable sequences of events that change us forever. Nothing that we stand on is truly static. As the world we live in takes shape through it’s motion, my work attempts to understand the truths revealed in the places where the cracks begin to show. I am particularly interested in how dance for the camera has the ability to magnify the subtle details of interaction that mirrors my interest in the subterranean forces at work within and among us.”