kate harman is a dancer, choreographer and performance maker.

Kate Harman is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her work orients around the notion of the body as a container for personal, genetic, and cultural memory, an archive or sorts, containing limitless realms of possibilities. Her practice, at its core, looks to relieve the dancers and the audiences bodies from the constraints built by political, cultural and aesthetic hierarchies. 

Influence from her years working in Germany within mixed genres has resulted in her work taking various forms (Performance, installation, durational performance and participatory works made with young people and amateurs).  She is a founding member of Gold Coast company The Farm and with them has created the works Cockfight, The Ninth Wave, and Helpmann Award winning TIDE.

Her practice currently focuses on the notions of authenticity and connection, in the context of performance. This is focused through a view of the body as a container of histories and stored experiences both personal, genetic and socio-cultural. 

Kate completed her training at QUT and has worked as a collaborator and performer with La Boite Theatre Company, Dancenorth, PVCtanz (Germany), KLARA theatre (Switzerland), David Pledger and Ochre Dance Company. 

Her individual works and those with The Farm, She is driven by a desire to connect to anyone, from dance and theatre virgins to aficionados and professionals. 

Her works have been presented nationally and internationally in the contexts such as Dance Massive, Darwin Festival, Bleach Festival, Supercell Dance Festival, Festival 2018 (for the Commonwealth Games) The United Kingdom through Dance Touring Partnership, and GAM, Chile.