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Updated 4/6/2023

Katie Pustizzi

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Katie Pustizzi, MFA (she/her) is an Interdisciplinary Movement Artist from the Boston area. She is the creative visionary and director of “Liquid Spine”, a global film series that explores the interconnectedness of our water systems through ecology, conservation, and embodied movement.  Her artistic practices are driven by improvisational and experiential movement forms.  Katie’s performative pieces always contain moments of chance connection, via scored works or completely free-form improvisations. 

 

Katie is deeply interested in international exchange as a form of artistic research.  In 2019, she explored Gaga with Batsheva Dance Company in Israel on a professional development grant from Gann Academy.  In 2022, she explored Dance and Perception in Sardinia, Italy through the Aiken Scholarship from Wilson College, her alma mater.

 

Katie currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Dean College and frequently shares her improvisationally-focused creation process as an Artist in Residence at various universities and schools across the country. For 10-years, Katie served as the Founder/Artistic Director of Aurora Borealis Dance Company, a mentoring-centered youth ensemble for aspiring movement artists under the age of 20. During these years, she created “State of Flux” a fully-improvisational movement experience, in which the audience chooses music, movement constraints, and dancer pairings during a live-performance. Katie is now pursuing her work as an independent-artist.

 

Find Me

Katie Pustizzi (she, her, hers)
Job Title: Dancer
Phone: 6172858568
Address:
Woburn, MA 01801

About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2012

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2012

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Media - Film

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Film Showings
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Virtual Events
  • Exhibitions
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 2

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Native American Tribes
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • General Public
  • Businesses

Languages Available:

  • English

Geographic Reach:

  • International
  • National
  • State

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Network
  • The Pollination Project Seed Grant
  • Salem State University Alumni Association Grant
  • The Art of Ecology Grant
  • Special Project Grant- Creative County Initiative of the Essex County Community Foundation

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Network
  • The Pollination Project Seed Grant
  • Salem State University Alumni Association Grant
  • The Art of Ecology Grant
  • Special Project Grant- Creative County Initiative of the Essex County Community Foundation

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient