About

Creating work for the mainstage, alternative spaces, and film, Katherine Maxwell is a director, choreographer, and the founding Artistic Director of Hivewild.

Maxwell’s 27 choreographic projects have been presented at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, CPR- Center for Performance Research, the Ace Hotel, Dinner Gallery, Atlantic Terminal-Barclays Center, and the Actors Fund Art Center, among others. Maxwell has been featured by online platforms such as Nowness, VICE, and on Vimeo as a Staff Pick and her film works have screened at 14 international festivals including the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. Maxwell’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Informa, Lomography Magazine, Art Zealous, and selected for residencies including the Downtown Brooklyn Rehearsal Residency Initiative, BAC’s AccessArt, Carroll Hall Artist-in-Residence Program (Brooklyn) and Shawbrook Dance (Ireland).

Maxwell is a proud founding member of The Choreographers Guild.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I believe that all humans are inextricably interconnected.
I believe in listening to the body from the inside out.
Using these foundational beliefs, I connect with my gut: my intuitive center- to call upon internal triggers and impulses- a thought, a flavor, an emotion- to spurn motion throughout the body.
I believe in creating work that allows the viewer to travel into the artist's world, creating dimension, depth, and world-building. Embodied through refined fluidity, strong athleticism, and a clear sense of honesty I stand by the notion that dance can encourage and display vulnerability, empathy, joy, and difficulty. And through these efforts, we can become softer creatures more capable of accessing compassion and understanding.
I am actively interested in using movement as a platform for mindfulness and human acceptance.
My mission as an artist is to create work with the intention of interrogating how we can learn to acknowledge the contingent nature of human life, and affect it for the better.