Katherine Paola De La Cruz (she/her) is an Afro-Dominican dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated in 2020 from Hunter College with both a BA in Anthropology and Dance. Katherine 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 Larry Keigwin, Blakeley White-McGuire, Monica Bill Barnes & Co, The Soul Dance Company, Andre Haenggi, and Maura Donohue Nguyen. Recently she was a dancer and co-creator in Catherine Galasso’s work, CITY OF WOM_N: HARBOR co-presented with the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor in May 2023.
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.
