Kathleen Downie

Kathleen has an interdisciplinary practice that involves dance, physical performance, drawing, and writing. She makes solo work, collaborates and co-devises as a performer and teaches community dance. She is a member of Interval artist support network and works as a character street entertainer. Interested in making work that at once shows our uniqueness and what joins us, engaging with an honest look at the human condition, through a poetic, visceral language. Her past solo work Filled with Spaces looked at universal themes of love, longing and struggle, framed around specificities of the story of her grandparents. It was performed at platforms including Practice at Salisbury Arts Centre. Kathleen has worked as a performer with companies including Rosemary Lee, Company of Wolves, Oceanallover, danceroom Spectroscopy, Lisa May Thomas, Exit map and the Invisible Circus. Kathleen studied fine art painting and time-based media at Wimbledon School of Art and went on to train at Circomedia, specializing in acrobatics and physical theatre (2005-2006). She has extensive training independently in improvisation and release-based dance with teachers including; Andrew Morish, Rosalind Crisp, Julyen Hamilton, Katie Duck, Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung, Peter Bingham (Edam Dance), Menako Seki, local teachers Laila Diallo and Lisa May Thomas.