A great big thank you for all who supported Kate’s kickstarter, helping to fund her customized repertory piece for Ice-Semblé, Chicago’s premier skating performance company.
She exceeded her fundraising goal, and she could not have done it without your support!
As planned, Kate choreographed a number for Ice-Semblé’s spring show, “Pastiche” last week. Watch them perform Kate’s choreo, entitled Escape, with music by the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Kate is producing and choreographing a customized repertory piece for Ice-Semblé, Chicago’s premier skating performance company, and you can help!
Give a Gift of Any Size
First, you can help Kate “kick-start” the project by making a contribution in any amount. Her goal is to raise $1100 by Saturday, May 12.
Since Ice-Semblé is a non-profit, your donation is tax deductible, and you will be provided with a receipt at the close of the project.
Remember, every little bit helps!
See The Event Live
Second, if you are in the greater Chicago area, consider attending the event! Ice-Semblé will perform their show “Pastiche” on Thursday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Winnetka Ice Arena.
Tickets are $12 per person in advance, or $15 at the door for adults, and $12 for children aged 5-12 years old.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the National MS Society.
Check out Kate’s guest article, “Web 2.0 Offers New Stages to Young Skating Choreographers,” on the blog IceSkatingWorld.com. In her post, she highlights the opportunities now available to aspiring young choreographers rising in the figure skating world.
She details how social media is leveling the playing field in new ways, and explains two new, interactive programs for choreographers: an online master choreography class and the Young Artists’ Showcase, in which Kate was a finalist in 2010.
On a recent trip back to Colorado Springs, CO, Kate was asked to work off-ice on movement with 2012 U.S. National Pairs Champions Caydee Denney and John Coughlin and on-ice with 2012 U.S. National Junior Pairs Bronze Medalists Colin Grafton and Kylie Duarte.
Colin and Kylie will be performing Kate’s choreo at several shows in the Boston area next month! Sneak preview of their exhibition program shown below…video to follow.
This semester, Kate is currently participating in a pilot program of an online choreography master class. She will obtain her Certificate in Choreography for Figure Skaters in May 2012.
This class was developed and is taught by Jodi Porter, an award-winning dance choreographer, founder of American Ice Theater, and author of the USFSA Theatre on Ice Dictionary of Choreographic Elements.
It’s a live, Web-based distance learning program offering 20 weeks of in-depth study of compositional elements and advanced choreography techniques as they relate to figure skating.
Participants in this course must create choreography to meet specific movement and dance objectives and submit videos of these projects each month.
The first month’s project focused on the element of tempo. Kate called her first project submission, “Twitchy”.
Most recently, she choreographed another piece for the class, “A Study in Space”, including space across the arena as well as the space of the body. Check it out:
Kate was recently honored by being nominated to join the board of directors of ProSkaters, the world’s premier membership organization for professional figure skaters. She was officially voted into office earlier this month.
She is thrilled to offer her skills to help advance its mission of “Connecting talented skaters with amazing producers!”
In addition to her performance at the grand opening of the city’s new downtown ice rink over Thanksgiving weekend, Kate was also honored to be the “Grand Marshall” for the Lexington, Kentucky, 2011 Christmas parade this year.
Her figure skating was also featured during the UK Opera Theater’s annual “Celebration of Song” concert featuring Christmas carols performed by Alltech vocal scholarship winners at Victorian Square Shoppes. (Kate appears at about the 16:00 minute mark of the show.)
For a little holiday pick-me-up, check out this video of Kate skating her own choreography to Josh Groban’s “Believe” from the film The Polar Express:
Happy Holidays, everyone!
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