About
Katie Barlow
Artistic Director
Katie Barlow has been choreographing and directing large scale site specific work since 2011. Her inspiration comes from community exploration and collaboration, mass movement, site and spontaneity. Katie seeks out the potential that she can bring to energize an area through dance and performance work.
After choreographing and directing several flash mobs, Katie developed a dance-fitness class, Flash Mob 101 in 2014 originating at the JCC Binghamton and additionally at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY as of Spring 2019. During this class students rehearse over several weeks in order to perform a pop up performance at various restaurants and outdoor locations. In the spring of 2018, Barlow choreographed Cabaret, at the Jewish Community Center in Binghamton, NY and Twisted Broadway for the Binghamton Pride Coalition. In the fall of 2019 Barlow taught a Flash Mob workshop followed by online classes, and a virtual NYC Dance Week Flash Mob intensive during the pandemic. Katie has been an active team member of the NYC Dance Week Festival for the past five years as the Studio Coordinator & Flash Mob Director & Choreographer.
Katie graduated from Alfred University in May, 2011 with a BA in theatre and a minor in dance. She has created many site specific pieces as well as choreographed and performed for AU Dance Theatre. Under the direction of D. Chase Angier and Robert Bingham, she concentrated in composition, contemporary modern, and site specific dance. As an involved Dance Place intern in Washington, DC, she assisted with Coyaba Dance Theatre, was the studio rental coordinator/office manager, as well as a performer of African dance.
As a choreographer and director she has created many performance pieces: Alfred University Site Specific Pieces (2009), Camp Starlight Choreography (2010 & 2011), Contagious Shift (2011), Katie Barlow’s EPIC Senior Dance Project (2011), B-SENsational Flash Mob (2013), Icona Pop Flash Mob (2013), Alfred University Opening Convocation Flash Mob (2013), Pimple (2013), and Binghamton Is NOT Boring Flash Mob (2013), Colonie Centre Mall- Marriage Proposal Flash Mob (2014), JCC Flash Mob 101 Class Series 1-11 (2014-present), Destiny USA-Marriage Proposal Flash (2015), Ventosa Vineyards- Wedding Surprise Flash Mob (2015), Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Wasn’t Enough- KNOW Theater (2016), Cabaret- JCC Binghamton (2018), Twisted Broadway- Binghamton Pride Coalition (2018), NYC Dance Week FitEngine Workshop (2018) Arts Center of the Capital Region Flash Mob (Spring 2019), NYC Dance Week Workshop (2019- 2023), Arts Center of the Capital Region Flash Mob (Fall 2019), NYC Dance Week Virtual Workshop (2020), Once Upon A Mattress, BLAST (2022), Binghamton Chamber of Commerce 50th Anniversary Performance(2022), Greece Ridge Mall-Marriage Proposal Flash Mob, (2023)