Kate Alton
dancer

Kate Alton is an award-winning dancer, choreographer and theatre creator recently relocated from Toronto to Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. A member of Toronto Dance Theatre from 1989-95, she has since worked with numerous renowned choreographers including Doug Varone, James Kudelka, Louise Bedard, David Earle, Laurence Lemieux, Heidi Strauss, and Bill Coleman.

Kate was choreographer and co-creator/director with Ross Manson of the dance and sound poetry production The Four Horsemen Project, which toured internationally and garnered four Dora Mavor Moore awards, including Outstanding Direction by Alton and Manson. Alton, Manson and soprano/actor/dancer Neema Bickersteth together created Century Song, a theatrical , chroegraphed recital, which has been presented in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Ghent, Edinburgh, Kigali, Manchester, Birmingham and London.

Whilst solo parenting twins, over the past decade Kate created several works for students of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre (now Dance Arts Institute), studied ASL and Deaf culture, and presented her first solo show This Dance, which was listed as one of the top shows of 2015 in NOW magazine.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Kate was selected by Peggy to learn her solo Unfold as part of The Choregrapher’s Trust Year Three. Kate also performed as part of two durational performances - Aleatoria at Nuit Blanche and move at the AGO.