Katherine Helen Fisher is a choreographer, director, and interdisciplinary performance artist working across performance, expanded cinema, and computational media. Her work brings the moving body into dialogue with interactive photography, algorithmic scores, and real-time generative systems to examine agency, embodiment, and desire. Across mediums, she explores how technologies frame bodies—and how performers can reshape those relationships through movement and shared authorship.
Her practice is grounded in an extensive performance career, including a decade with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company and international touring in Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach.
She has also performed with the Merce Cunningham Trust, Mark Morris Dance Group, Johannes Wieland, ODC, and MOMIX, among others.
Her work has been presented and supported by REDCAT, Judson Church, Danspace Project, Human Resources, Barnard Movement Lab, Harvard metaLAB, Brown Arts Institute, the Smithsonian, Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology, and on PBS.
Fisher is co-founder of Safety Third Productions, an award-winning studio creating choreographically driven films for cultural institutions and brands, and co-founder and Creative Director of Hyperreal Labs, a creative technology studio developing interactive media.
Her movement direction and creative production span collaborations with Hermès, Microsoft, Radiohead, and Rufus Wainwright, as well as large-scale entertainment productions including America's Got Talent.
As a curator, Fisher organized Dancing the Algorithm (2025), the inaugural interactive technology exhibition at Jacob's Pillow's rebuilt Doris Duke Theatre. Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the exhibition was featured in The New York Times and Forbes.
She is also Founding Director of The Desert Door Rest + Resilience Artist Retreat in Joshua Tree, California, which provides artists with time and space for rest, research, and creative practice.
Fisher is a 2026 ONX Onassis Fellow and a recipient of the 2024 Google Artists + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award for Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, an immersive installation that reimagines Martha Graham's iconic 1930 solo through interactive and volumetric media.
She has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and co-chaired The State of Performance Art and Interactive Technology at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing.
She served as Visiting Assistant Arts Professor in Collaborative Arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts from 2023 to 2026. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.