Artist Collection #3: Katrina MCPHERSON

Katrina is a director, cinematographer and award-winning screendance artist whose creative, scholarly and educational practice is at the forefront of the international field. Having trained as a dancer and choreographer, a desire to explore the creative possibilities of dance and the moving image led Katrina to complete a postgraduate degree in video art, laying the foundations of what would become a lifelong, multi-faceted and influential engagement with dance on screen. Over the past 35 years, Katrina’s collaborative films, installations and online works have been presented at venues and festivals worldwide. For 15 years, Katrina worked as a director of arts programmes for UK television. A much sought-after lecturer and mentor, Katrina teaches screendance worldwide and has initiated and facilitated numerous workshops, courses and symposia. Katrina is the Course Leader of the MA Screendance at London Contemporary Dance School.