Katherine Paola De La Cruz is a Dominican dancer and choreographer based in Queens, NY. She is a member of the Great Jones Repertory Theater Company at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and a 2025-26 Open Call artist at The Shed. Katherine has performed in works by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, The Soul Dance Company, maura nguyễn donohue, Valentina Baché Rodríguez, Catherine Galasso, Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theater Company, Zishan Ugurlu etc. She is a passionate choreographer, dancer and storyteller whose work center themes of social inequality, queerness, immigration and mental health. Her original choreographic works and movement improvisations have supported climate justice and immigrants’ rights demonstrations in New York City. In her work, she interweaves narratives of nostalgia and hope that directly address sociopolitical issues and visibilize inner healing processes. Katherine aims to continue developing and deepening her own process while serving in any capacity towards the sharing of culture, memory and art.
