Katie Baer Schetlick is a dance artist and educator currently living
in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work, appearing as installations,
movement scores, site-responsive performances, workshops,
choreographed walks, and dances, often in collaboration with other
artists and scholars, has been presented in Brazil, Egypt, Poland,
Amsterdam and several cities in the U.S.
During her six years as a founding member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre,
she performed both domestically and internationally in Jordan and
Palestine. As a freelance performer, Katie has worked with The
Francesca Harper Project, Susan Marshall, Athena Kokoronis, Lailye
Weidman, Jessie Young, Shandoah Goldman, and Zap McConnell. Active
and ongoing collaborations include projects with Zena Bibler and with
Conrad Cheung and Anna Hogg as part of the artist collective,
nonhumanities. She has facilitated workshops on improvisation and the
politics of space at the UVa School of Architecture, New Museum,
CLASSCLASSCLASS, International Dance Theatres Festival (Poland),
Cumulus Dance, and Dance Studies Association conferences.
Katie holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University, a Masters in
Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts, and a BFA in Dance from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program. She is
currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of
Virginia.
