Katherine Paola De La Cruz (she/her) is an Afro-Dominican dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed in various venues and festivals both live and virtually including City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, The Estrogenius Festival, The American Dance Festival, The WP theater, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Arts on Site’s Women in Motion, Brookfield Place and more. She has performed in works by Monica Bill Barnes & Co, The Soul Dance Company, Andrea Haenggi, Maura Donohue Nguyen, Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theater Company, Zishan Ugurlu. Katherine has used dance to support climate justice and immigrants’ rights causes in New York City. She believes that dance is a powerful tool for community building and bridging divides. Katherine is a passionate choreographer whose work centers around themes of social inequality, LGBTQ+ stories, familial ties, immigration and mental health. Most of her work is born from a need to make direct political statements and to make visible often ignored inner healing processes.
