Kate Martel

Kate Martel is a dance artist, educator, and Alexander Technique teacher based in Western Massachusetts (on Nipmuc ancestral land). She enjoys teaching people of all ages, and currently works as the Youth Program Coordinator at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA). Kate was a collaborating artist with Laura Peterson Choreography for ten years, and has also performed in work by Barbie Diewald, Nora Stephens, Luis Lara Malvacias, Rebecca Brooks, Juliette Mapp, and others. Her choreography has been presented by the Williston Northampton School, SCDT (WIP), Women in Motion, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research and Purdue University. She was Program Coordinator of Young Artists at Dance Italia 2022–23. She has been on faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University, Adelphi University, and Westfield State University. Kate received a B.A. from Goucher College in dance and education (2002) and an M.F.A. in performing arts from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2014), and is an AmSAT Board Certified Alexander Technique Teacher (Balance Arts Center, 2017). She teaches the Alexander Technique privately in both group and private settings. She is currently adjunct faculty at Amherst and Smith Colleges.