Kayla White (she/her) is an interdisciplinary movement artist activated by
resilience through softening, functional movement, and physically throwing
herself on the floor. Kayla’s approach to teaching Pilates is similar in value
– meeting movement with compassion, inviting in challenge and rigor, and
allowing for bodies to be bodies. In recent years, she has performed in
works by Elizabeth Dishman, Mack Lawrence, Charles O. Anderson/Dance
Theatre X. She is also in continuous process developing her solo work
“Kisses For Barb” devised as a scattered, inconclusive attempt to navigate
her grandfather’s second marriage. A sort of desperate, sort of detached,
sort of high praise for Dolly Parton. In addition Kayla has been in process
with Mack Lawrence since 2022 in the development of their dance-play
“Dinner” – stuffed full of rigorous movement, nightmare imagined run-ins,
sweet tender moments, and pure anarchy. She graduated from the
University of Texas at Austin holding a BFA in Dance Performance and
Choreography as well as completing her 600 hour comprehensive Pilates
certification for Gramercy Pilates NYC.
