Making Video Dance

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KATRINA McPHERSON

Katrina is a director and screendance artist whose creative, scholarly and educational work is at the forefront of the international field. Having trained as a dancer and choreographer at Laban in London, an early career fascination with the collaborative possibilities of dance and the moving image led her to complete a post-graduate in Electronic Imaging (video art) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, laying the foundations of what would become a life-long, multi-faceted and influential engagement with dance on screen.

Katrina has collaborated with numerous international dance artists including Sang Jijia (China/Tibet), Crystal Pite (Canada), Marc Brew (UK/US), Simon Ellis (NZ/UK), Harold Rheaume (Quebec) and Kirstie Simson (UK/US). Her approach remains at the cutting edge of concepts and technology and yet of great interest to the wider public. Katrina’s recent directing credits include Water & Man (2022), with Rob Heaslip, Solitude (2023) and Paysages Mixted /Mixed Landscapes (2019), with Harold Rheaume and we record ourselves (2016), with Natalia and Owa Barua and Simon Ellis, Force of Nature (2012), The Time It Takes (2012), There is a Place (2010) and seminal works such as Sense-8 (2001), Moment (1998) , and Pace (1995).

Katrina is an experienced lecturer and workshop leader and has taught extensively worldwide. Katrina is currently Course Leader of the MA Screendance programme at London Contemporary Dance School where she is also a Research Fellow. Katrina was Associate Professor of Screendance in the Department of Dance at the University of Utah, USA; Visiting Lecturer in Screendance on the post-graduate dance course at Bath Spa University, England, and on the BA and MA courses in Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. Katrina leads the annual Screendance in the Landscape workshops on Easdale Island, Scotland.

Katrina gained a PhD by Publication from Edinburgh Napier University in 2023.