Kathleen Hermesdorf is a dance maker, performer, improviser, teacher & organiser based in San Francisco since 1991. She has been a member of Bebe Miller Company (2006 BESSIE), Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (1999 IZZIE) & Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann, co-directed Hermesdorf & Wells Dance Company with Scott Wells (1994 GOLDIE) and has collaborated extensively with Stephanie Maher. She has many awards, reviews, interesting artistic associates and a BFA and MFA in Dance Performance & Pedagogy. With musician Albert Mathias, she directs la ALTERNATIVA, an apparatus for deeply integrated motive & sonic stimulus via collaboration, creation, improvisation & exchange. The work manifests in performance, production, commission & programming, and the company is in residence at KUNST-STOFF arts and in association with ODC School & Theater. Alternative Conservatory is a modular, mobile, intensive & immersive international training ground in dance & related forms.
www.la-alternativa.us