KATITI KING Simonson Technique

Katiti has been teaching dance and performing for over 25 years. She is currently on the faculties of both Dance New Amsterdam (1984) and Barnard college/Columbia University (1990) in New York City.

Katiti has taught throughout Europe, South America, Canada and Japan, as well as major dance festivals in the U.S., including Bates dance festival, Harvard Summer Dance, New York Summer Dance Intensive (which she cocreated with Charles Wrisht).

Additionally, she has performed for many choreographers including Lynn Simonson, Adrienne Hawkins, Danny Sloane, Marlies Yearby, Sarah Pogostin, Guido Tuveri, and Craig Patterson. Her collaborative works include choreography with Michael Foley and with vocalist/musician Philip Hamilton.

Class Description: Slow Intermediate, Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced & Advanced

Katiti King has been a teacher of Contemporary Jazz Simonson Technique since 1980. Simonson Technique, developed by Lynn Simonson, is a comprehensive and anatomically based technique that prepares the body to dance with awareness and safety.

Katiti King brings an exciting and challenging movement quality to her class that emphasizes musicality and rhythm. Katiti’s choreography combines various dance vocabularies, such as jazz, modern and ethnic, and is inspired by jazz, soul, Latin and world music. In her class, Katiti guides the student to find a deeper awareness of the body and to experience free expression as an individual through movement.