BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company (BCDC)
About the Company Director:
BCDC operates under the management of Company Director Katherine Smith and her staff. Katherine is a former professional dancer who has worked with many renowned choreographers, including James Truitte, Talley Beatty, Ulysseus Dove, Donald McKayle and Faye Snow.
Her theater credits include Dayton Contemporary, Rod Rodgers, Forces of Nature, New World, D.C. Contemporary and Juba Dance Companies. Katherine has toured Africa in ASpirit@; Beijing, China in the first Pacific Cultural Exchange; Vienna, Austria for the 6th Annual Summer Dance Festival and Seoul, Korea sponsored by American Dance Festival.
Additional theater credits include Debbie Allen’s ASoul Possessed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA; George Faison’s For Colored Girls at the American Place Theater in New York (Off Broadway) and Baltimore’s Center Stage; Mike Malone’s Black Nativity for which she received the O’Keefer Award for Best Female Dancer in a Musical Production; Bessie’s Blues at the Studio Theater (Helen Hayes Award); Purlie at the Fox Theater in Atlanta; and the national tour of AThe Wiz.
Katherine, an Equity Union Member in the Arts, received an Honor’s Award in recognition for achievements as a performer and instructor from the International Association of Blacks in Dance. She is the former Co-Director of The Adrain Bolton & Katherine Smith Dance Center.
In addition to her responsibilities as BCDC Artistic Director at BodyMoves, Katherine is currently on the Dance Faculties of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Howard University.