Katie Dorn

About Katie

Katie Dorn is a contemporary dance artist and educator who teaches contemporary dance technique, composition, and repertory at Interlochen Arts Academy and Arts Camp. At Interlochen, she works with students across levels and disciplines, emphasizing technical clarity, musicality, creative independence, and a thoughtful approach to the art form.

Dorn was a member of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company from 2009 to 2019 and continues to perform, teach, and collaborate with Childs. Most recently, she performed with Childs at Bard SummerScape in Momentary Reprise and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Lucinda Childs: Early Works. Dorn has set Childs’s choreography on students at Interlochen, Barnard College, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and on professional artists of the Lyon Opera Ballet.

Dorn is featured in an upcoming third-season episode of the PBS series Songs About Buildings and Moods, which explores architecture and music. In the series’ first episode to incorporate dance, Interlochen faculty Cynthia Van Maanen and Tom Childs composed the music, with Dorn creating and performing the choreography. Her choreography has also been presented at Lincoln Center and National Sawdust.

Dorn has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and was a featured performer in the revival of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. She also performed James Lee Byars’s The Mile Long Paper Walk, re-staged by Lucinda Childs for the Marron Atrium at The Museum of Modern Art.

Dorn has previously taught at Sacred Heart University, Barnard College, and Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She holds a B.F.A. and High School Diploma in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an M.F.A. from Hollins University.

One of my most important jobs as a teacher is to guide students into becoming their own best educators, so they are confidently able to apply what they’ve learned in the studio to their lives and to the communities around them. I have succeeded as a teacher when my students feel motivated, confident, inspired, and create opportunities for themselves within the greater artistic community and the world at large.