Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company


Artistic staff

	Photo By: Matt Lankes	Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Artistic Director, received her B.A. in Modern Dance from the University of Texas and her M.F.A. in Performance and Choreography from Florida State University. Between degrees, Kathy studied in New York with Ruth Currier, an original member of the Humphrey/Limon Dance Company. Armed with her Master’s, she then taught at FSU, Stephen F. Austin State University and UT, free-lanced as a guest teacher and choreographer, and, after settling down in Austin, produced annual dance concerts for five years before forming her dance company in 1998. Since that time, the company has accumulated numerous awards and recognitions including “Outstanding Dance Concert” by the Austin Critics Table, invitations to perform at prestigious dance festivals, conferences and other events, and received critical acclaim from the Dallas Morning News, Toronto’s Globe and Mail and the New York Times among others. She has received several Austin Critics Table nominations for Best Dancer, Best Choreographer and Best Dance Concert and has been a guest speaker/artist for Texas A&M University, Texas State University, St. Edward’s University, the Texas Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreational Dance, and the Texas Dance Educators Conference. In March 2009, KDH Dance was one of two Texas-based contemporary dance companies invited to attend the American College Dance Festival in College Station. As a Guest Company at ACDFA, KDH performed for over 1500 university dance students. Kathy also taught classes in Choreography and Partnering. In addition to directing KDH Dance Company, Kathy teaches dance at Austin Community College, St. Edward’s University and at Hamrick/Warren, a professional modern dance studio located at Café Dance. She has taught creative movement to scores of underserved elementary grade students and worked with foster teens through New Art Kinnections, the company’s arts outreach program. She reaches hundreds of students each year by teaching master classes and conducting artist residencies in modern dance, improvisation and choreography at Austin Dance Camp and for high school and university dance departments and dance companies. Kathy and Dave, her husband of 26 years (!), have two children, both of whom attend the University of Texas. Jacob is a Studio Art major, and Hannah is majoring in Radio, Television and Film.


			Kate Warren, Artistic Advisor , has been dancing professionally for twenty-six years. For eight of those years, Kate performed with the Sharir Dance Company and served as its Associate Artistic Director. During that time, she danced in works by Merce Cunningham, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, and David Gordon. In 1991, Kate established Hamrick/Warren Dance, a professional modern dance studio in Austin. And in 1996, she opened Café Dance, a teaching, rehearsal and performance space.

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Barbara Jo Stetzelberger, LCSW, DTR, Artistic Outreach Director, is a psychotherapist in private practice and is a registered dance/movement therapist with the American Dance Therapy Association. She specializes in expressive arts therapies, stress reduction, resiliency, recovery, grief/transition issues, and somatic concerns, including trauma and depression. Barbara Jo is an adjunct faculty member for the UT School of Social Work. She is a certified Exercise Specialist and the originator of "Mind Body F.I.T,” a mind/body/spirit approach to wellness. She presents nationally. Some training and workshops include Claiming the Body for helping professionals, Fully Alive, stress reduction training, Embodied Ethics, for clinicians and Know Your Center / Dance Your Edge, DMT groups.

Her integrative and collaborative arts programs are recognized as “Outstanding Accomplishments and Contributions.” Her commitment to building strong communities through Dance and the arts was honored statewide, receiving the First Annual Texas School Social Worker of the Year award in 2001. Barbara Jo has great talent working with adolescents and has written curriculum for Family Forward and Youth Launch, non-profit agencies serving youth and families.

Barbara Jo has choreographed & performed professionally. She performs locally for fun and fundraisers. As a certified leader of InterPlay she has appeared in multiple performances including The Social Work and Spirituality Conference in New York opening plenary. Barbara received her MSSW from UT Austin, Bachelor of Fine Arts from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, Dance Pedagogy training from Nikolais-Louis Dance Foundation, NYC, NY.


	+Click Photo to enlarge		Marlo Harris, Assistant to the Director, received her B.A. in Dance from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She performed with the KDH Dance Company for 10 years and was one of the last founding members of the company to retire. Today she is the Assistant to the Director of KDH. Marlo was nominated by the Austin Critics Table for Best Female Dancer in Austin in 2007. Her training includes studying at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York and American Dance Festival at Duke University from 1995-1998. Marlo has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., PS 122 in New York, The Cunningham Studio in New York, in Las Vegas and Orlando on the Kohler Tour, and has made a television appearance on the Deborah Duncan talk show in Houston. In conjunction to dancing and performing, Marlo teaches Pilates. She is a certified Pilates instructor through the PhysicalMind Institute based out of NY and has been teaching for 10 years. Marlo started her Pilates teaching career at Ballet Austin, under Ann Arnoult. She went on to teach at VIM Studios in South Austin as well as the JCC. Marlo then moved to Houston and proceeded to manage two of her own studios. Upon returning to Austin, Marlo taught 4 years at Pilates360 in Westlake as an independent contractor in order to concentrate on her performing career. Marlo's teaching career not only encompasses Pilates, but she has also spent time throughout the years in outreach teaching. She has taught dance to kids at MD Anderson Cancer and Research Hospital in Houston, as well as Safe Place, Settlement Home, and Salvation Army in Austin.