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Kaitlin McCarthy is a Seattle-based dance artist, journalist, and teacher. Her choreography has appeared repeatedly at On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center, 12th Ave Arts, and countless other venues, festivals, and self-produced evening-length performances. Her work is “fondly humorous and stunningly creepy” (SeattleDances) and “in the forefront of innovative contemporary Seattle dance” (Deconstruct Collective). In addition to her own work, she has developed a decade-long collaborative partnership with Jenny Peterson, performing under moniker “The Bonnies.”

Kaitlin graduated summa cum laude with a degree in dance from Mt Holyoke College in 2009. As a dancer she has performed for over a dozen local artists, including regularly with Alice Gosti/MALACARNE since 2014, with whom she has toured nationally and internationally. Kaitlin’s performance work specializes in improvisation, durational and site-specific work, theatricality, and technical foundation in ballet, modern, and contact improvisation.

She has spent the last nine years as a teaching artist for Velocity Dance Center and eXit SPACE. Specializing in adult beginning dance, Kaitlin prides herself on brings safe-body practices, down-to-earth vibes, and the joy of dance to the classroom.

As a dance journalist, Kaitlin has spent the last decade writing about the Seattle scene in publications such as City Arts Magazine, Dance Intl Magazine, PublicDisplay.Art, and SeattleDances.com, where she has been the Editor since 2016. During her leadership she grew SeattleDances from a volunteer site to one that paid its writers and staff, and realigned the organization’s mission to focus on local and independent dance. For her writing she received a 2022 fellowship to the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center for Theatre.