Katie Green

After reading English at Cambridge, Katie graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006 and formed green bean dance in the same year with the support of the Pyramid Award for Contemporary Dance. As well as directing green bean dance, she works as a freelance dance artist in London, the East Midlands and the East region.

Katie performs with Abalino Dance Theatre and Cilgwyn Theatre Company, teaches in learning environments from primary school to professional level and continues to choreograph for theatres and site-specific projects. She is currently an Associate Artist at Dance4 and winner of a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award. Her choreography was also nominated for the New Trends prize at the Burgos International Choreography Competition (2007).

Recent projects include:

• choreography/performance for Cilgwyn Theatre Company's The Faerie Queen (London, December 2007),
• movement direction for Oily Cart Theatre Company's hydro-pool piece for children with complex disabilities and on the autistic spectrum (London, May 2008),
• a youth dance commission for the Big Dance 2008 (Peterborough, July 2008),
• a collaborative commission from Grimshaw Architecture Practice for the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), performed at the Royal Academy of Art and in outdoor venues in central London (July 2008); Katie was also invited to speak at LFA conversation events with Royal Academy President Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and senior architect Neven Sidor, and with Channel 4 anchorman Jon Snow, choreographer Prue Lang, and fashion designer Sidney Bryan,
• a day of creative dance workshops for the Tate Britain's family event Kinetic Tate, inspired by Martin Creed's installation 'Work No. 850' (London, October 2008).

Read more about Katie's first year as a professional artist in her Juice article, green bean growing (October 2007).