Originally from North Carolina, Katie Faulkner received her MFA
in dance performance & choreography from Mills College in 2002.
Since graduating from Mills, Faulkner has performed the works of
Bill T. Jones, Randee Paufve, Stephen Petronio, June Watanabe,
Victoria Marks, Abigail Hosein, Kim Epifano, and Ann Carlson. She
has worked with several of these choreographers as a dancer with
AXIS Dance Company, with whom she performed both locally and
nationally from 2003-2007. She has enjoyed teaching students of all
ages and abilities around the country and at institutions such as
Santa Clara University, Marin Ballet, LINES Ballet BFA program, UC
Berkeley, Mills College, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and she is
currently on faculty at the University of San Francisco, and
ODC.
Since founding little seismic dance company in 2006,
Faulkner's choreographic and film work have received
support in the form of numerous commissions, residencies, and
awards, including support from: The Zellerbach Family Foundation,
Theater Bay Area CA$H, Rainin Foundation, San Francisco Arts
Commission, the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center AIR Program, the
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Marin Headlands Center for
the Arts, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and
she was in residence at ODC Theater from 2009-2011. She has
received Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzies) for Outstanding
Achievement in Choreography and Performance as well as nominations
in the categories of Music/Text/Sound and Visual Design. She
received a Special Isadora Duncan Dance Award with collaborator
Benjamin Goldman for her 2008 dance film, LOOM. In 2011 she
received the top prize for her duet "Until We Know for Sure" in the
Joyce Theater A.W.A.R.D. Show!/San Francisco competition as well as
the San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award (Guardian Outstanding
Local Discovery Award) for dance.
