Kate Ladenheim is a choreographer, educator, and creative technologist, with work that spans interactive installations, media design, performance, and robotics. She researches bodies in motion, and how they impact and are impacted by systems of social and technological pressure.
Ladenheim is an Assistant Artist in Residence in creative practice at the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, a faculty role at the University of Maryland. She holds an M.F.A. in Media Design Practices from ArtCenter College of Design. They conducted research in motion interfaces for robotics design at U.C.L.A., and was the 2019-2020 Artist in Residence at the Robotics, Automation, & Dance Lab at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Ladenheim's artistic projects have been presented internationally, including at The Invisible Dog, National Sawdust, Media Art Xploration, GrizzlyGrizzly, Brown University, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Performance Arcade (New Zealand). Her work has been celebrated in Dance Magazine as one of “25 to Watch” and “Best of 2018.”
