Katherine Paola De La Cruz is a Dominican choreographer, dancer and storyteller based in Queens, NY. She is a member of the Great Jones Repertory Theater Company at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and a 2025-26 Open Call artist at The Shed. She graduated in 2020 from Hunter College with both a BA in Anthropology and Dance. She was awarded full scholarships to train at the Movement Research MELT Summer intensive (2020),The Bates dance Festival and The Gibney Winter study (2021). She was an artist in residence at The Floor on Atlantic in 2022. In 2024 she was an artist in residence at little by little Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Peace Center. She performed in various venues and festivals including City Center’s Fall for Dance festival, The American Dance Festival, The WP theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Arts on Site: Women in Motion, Brookfield Place, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, La MaMa Creatures Festival etc. Katherine has performed in works by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Buglisi Dance Theater: Table of Silence, The Soul Dance Company, Andrea Haenggi, maura nguyễn donohue, Valentina Baché, Catherine Galasso, Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theater Company, Zishan Ugurlu, The Trojan Women Project ect. Her work has been presented at Hunter College, The Estrogenius Festival, Bates Dance Festival WIP, The Brooklyn Peace Center, and The Conjure Collective. Katherine will premiere her current work in process “Dirty Laundry” at The Judson Memorial Church for the Notes Toward program. ​ Katherine's works make direct political statements and visibilize often ignored inner healing processes. Her work centers themes of social inequality, queerness, familial ties, immigration and mental health. Her current focus on labor and her chronic back pain have injected her process with a necessary attention to pacing and sustainability. Her rigorous choreographic style is marked by energetic movement drawing from her formal training and quotidian movements. Katherine utilizes the set as an inanimate yet living performer alongside the humans in the piece. Her background in anthropology lends itself to a depth of inquiry in her research methods, namely the uses of interviews and participant observation. She directs sound scores that influence and inspire the creation of movement phrases. Katherine aims to develop and deepen her process. She deeply values and champions the sharing of culture, memory and art. ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Photo by Jordi Perez