Philippa Kaye Company supports the innovative dance work and artistic vision of choreographer Philippa Kaye, company dancers and multimedia collaborators. The performances celebrate the epic, wonderful, and absurd forces that shape our existence. The dancers of the company train in the gamut of physical practice-both traditional and newly codified, sharing a fearless spirit to investigate the unformulated in this laboratory of movement invention. The company's philosophy and working process embraces both scientific method and transcendence. The company connects with the public through concerts, teaching residencies, and lecture/demonstrations.

To request a press kit, or for information about classes, auditions, or volunteer opportunities, please contact:

249 Prospect Place, 1R Brooklyn NY 11238

Tax deductible contributions are much appreciated and can be made payable to Philippa Kaye Company, a non-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)3, organization. All contributions are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Thank You Thank You Thank You for your support.

PKC Board of Directors
Kerith Gardner, President
Alexandra Koren, Secretary and Treasurer
Ambrose Martos
Philippa Kaye

Choreographer's Statement

The body is a highly sensitive instrument, a meter, revealing physical and social forces. I am interested in principles which may pitch it into unusual or virtuosic moves, but also allow individuals to make choices while performing.

Much of the work concentrates on how our spatial and imaginative condition is influenced by electronic technology. In the most recent work, "Landing Strip", "Zoo Parts", and Anthropomorphism, What Kind of Animal Are You" we are observing and expressing our natures, our behavior, in a world populated by living creatures of all sorts.

,
Artistic Director

Philippa Kaye has been making dances for public performance since 1995, and has been dancing all along. She trained at the School of American Ballet and performed with American Ballet Theater as a child in New York City. Entranced by American Musical Theater and popular dance forms, she simultaneously developed a taste for the more personalized vocabularies of Modern Dance. After Graduating with a BA in Studio Art from U.C. Santa Cruz, she performed with numerous Contemporary choreographers in San Francisco and New York.

In 2000, she was commissioned by Dancing in the Streets for Wave Hill to create "Manicure," a site-specific outdoor work, and by Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution to set an evening of work in its public garden on Fifth Avenue. After studying the possibilities of interactive electronic media with performance and receiving an MFA in choreography from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, she formed Philippa Kaye Company to continue making dances. Her work has also been presented by Dixon Place, Dancenow/NYC, Chashama, New Dance Alliance, The 92nd St. Y, Sarah Lawrence College, SWEAT in Hoboken, N.J., Concord Academy, Concord, MA, and the D.C. International Improvisation Festival, and seen at many New York City venues including Joyce Soho, Pace Downtown Theater, The Gene Frankel Theater, Fordham University, as well as The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA. She has been a Fieldwork facilitator and is an active teacher.