A Maine girl at heart, Kate Speer is a dancer, choreographer, and organizer based in Denver, CO. Balancing life as an artist and arts administrator, she crafts performance work while tending to the wellbeing and heart beat of dance makers and nonprofit organizations. Currently a Resident Artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, she has had residencies at PlatteForum (CO), Middlebury College (VT), Swarthmore College (PA), and Mascher Space Cooperative (PA), all of which emphasize community engagement that is inherent in her dancemaking. Often self-producing in DIY spaces, her own choreography has been supported by Colorado Creative Industries Career Advancement Grant, the Puffin Foundation and the Community Education Center's New Edge Artist Mix Series (PA), and has been presented at Performatica (Cholula, Mexico), Boulder International Fringe Festival (CO), Philly Fringe (PA), ETC Performance Series (PA), and FAB Dance Showcase (ME). In 2018, Speer was selected for Control Group Productions’ inaugural Guest Artist Presenting Initiative, which produced [Colony 933], an immersive mystery dance-theatre, directed by Speer and conceived of and created collectively with 20 different artists in visual, performance, and music. Always seeking collaborative performance projects, she has had the pleasure to perform in work by Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Claudia Lavista, Ondine Geary, Raja Feather Kelly, Tania Isaac, Patrick Mueller, and Willi Dorner. Her movement technique is an eclectic mix of athletic, momentum-based movement studied under Gesel Mason, David Dorfman, and Kathleen Hermesdorf, and most recently, Piso Móvil and Continuum techniques studied under Omar Carrum and Claudia Lavista. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in Dance and Biology from Swarthmore College.