ABOUT
Katherine Helen Fisher is a dancer, choreographer, curator, creative producer, and Emmy Award-nominated film director. Her work interrogates boundaries between digital and physical worlds through the intersection of performance and technology. She creates participatory performance installations that center agency, empowerment, and desire, as they seek to imagine radical, techno-feminist futures. Drawing from a distinguished performance history that includes the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and the Philip Glass opera Einstein On The Beach, Fisher critically engages themes of performativity and representation in her artistic research.
Fisher’s work has been presented by prestigious institutions such as Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Judson Church, Danspace Project, The REDCAT, Human Resources, The Barnard Movement Lab, Brown Arts Institute and PBS. She is also a co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media studio through which she has directed numerous projects. These include: One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary created with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light, the film CEILING, which won Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Le Monstre, a wearable performance garment that received a Jury Prize at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Her movement direction portfolio spans collaborations with renowned brands such as the fashion house Hermès, as well as work on music videos for acclaimed artists like Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead, and the television show America's Got Talent. She is a recipient of a 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award in support of Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham's iconic 1930 work, Lamentation.
Fisher is currently a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches courses in expanded cinema and the integration of emerging digital media with live performance. She is curating Hyperreal Futures: Choreographing the Algorithmic Body, an interactive exhibition where bodies blend with algorithmic interfaces at the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in summer of 2025.
Fisher’s work has been presented by prestigious institutions such as Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Judson Church, Danspace Project, The REDCAT, Human Resources, The Barnard Movement Lab, Brown Arts Institute and PBS. She is also a co-founder of Safety Third, a digital media studio through which she has directed numerous projects. These include: One + One Make Three, an experimental dance documentary created with the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light, the film CEILING, which won Best Dance Short at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Le Monstre, a wearable performance garment that received a Jury Prize at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Her movement direction portfolio spans collaborations with renowned brands such as the fashion house Hermès, as well as work on music videos for acclaimed artists like Rufus Wainwright and Radiohead, and the television show America's Got Talent. She is a recipient of a 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award in support of Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation reimagining Martha Graham's iconic 1930 work, Lamentation.
Fisher is currently a Visiting Assistant Arts Professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she teaches courses in expanded cinema and the integration of emerging digital media with live performance. She is curating Hyperreal Futures: Choreographing the Algorithmic Body, an interactive exhibition where bodies blend with algorithmic interfaces at the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in summer of 2025.