This world premiere engagement of Bridge of Sighs marked Kate Weare’s Pillow debut (on a program shared with Maureen Fleming), but she had previously spent time onsite building the work in a Creative Development Residency. She founded her company in 2005 in order to make dances that explore a contemporary view of intimacy—both stark and tender—through the power and clarity of the moving body. As the daughter of a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, California, Weare draws on visual art sources in her work, as well as a fascination with the fields of language, poetry, contemporary music, and psychology. Weare received her BA from California Institute of the Arts and danced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade, and Montreal before settling in New York City in 2000.
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