Bio
Katrina’s work sits at the cutting edge of performance-based moving image practice. She makes films, installations and interactive works which are regularly presented by festivals, in galleries, on television and at venues worldwide.
About Katrina
Katrina’s screen-based art foregrounds embodied cinematography, employing improvisation and structural processes to generate new ways of telling stories of the body and landscape. She has directed, produced and filmed a wide range of works, created in collaboration with international performers, choreographers, composers, and companies.
For more than 35 years, Katrina has regularly received funding for her work, including from Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, the British Council, the British Film Institute, and the BBC. She was Resident Artist at Dance Base in Edinburgh and a Dance North Artist. Several film works directed by Katrina are held in major collections, including LUX Artists’ Moving Image, Routledge’s Online Performance Archive, and Threshold Arts.
Katrina has been the recipient of several awards, including the Honorary Award at the Choreoscope Dance Film Festival in Barcelona (2022), a Career Achievement Award at Dance Camera West Festival in Los Angeles (2020), and the Creative Scotland Award of £25,000 for Individuals in 2002. Katrina was awarded a PhD by Published Works from Edinburgh Napier University in 2023.
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Teacher Mentor Facilitator
A sought-after mentor and educator, Katrina teaches extensively and has facilitated numerous workshops, courses and symposia world-wide. Katrina co-founded an MSC in Dance and Media at Dundee University, Scotland, was Director of the Graduate Screendance programme at the University of Utah, USA, and is currently the Course Leader of the MA Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School. Katrina is also a PhD supervisor at LCDS and University of the Arts London.
Making Video Dance
Katrina is the author of “Making Video Dance, a step-by-step guide to creating dance for the screen”, published by Routledge in 2006, with a second edition in 2019. The book remains the only published practical guide to screendance. Katrina is currently writing the 3rd edition of “Making Video Dance” which will be released in 2027, alongside a Chinese language edition of the book.
Interdisciplinary Art Making
Having completed a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre at Laban in late 1980s, a desire to explore the creative possibilities of dance and the moving image led Katrina to undertake post-graduate study on the influential Electronic Imaging (video art) course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. This laid the foundation of what has become a life-long, multi-faceted engagement with dance on screen, film directing and interdisciplinary artmaking.
