Kate Ladenheim is a choreographer, educator, and creative technologist whose artistic work and scholarship spans interactive installations, media design, performance, and robotics. Their practice investigates the interplay between social and technological systems, focusing on how bodies navigate, subvert, and are ultimately shaped by these forces.
Ladenheim is currently an Assistant Professor of Choreography at UCLA’s department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and a recipient of the Google Artists + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award. They were previously Artist in Residence in creative practice at the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, a faculty role at the University of Maryland. Ladenheim holds an M.F.A. in Media Design Practices from ArtCenter College of Design, where they were also a postgraduate fellow. She 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, DancePlace (DC), Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, HERE Arts Center, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Performance Arcade (New Zealand). They were a member of the 2024 MAXmachina Lab cohort, as well as an Artist in Residence at the Barnard Movement Lab. Their work has been celebrated in Dance Magazine as one of “25 to Watch” and “Best of 2018.”
photo by Mark Escribano