The Mcculla Movement seeks the soul of dance. Artistic Director Katie Mcculla creates to display, express, and celebrate the human condition. In 2016 “Captive” premiered at the Broad stage for Santa Monica Colleges Synapse Dance Theatre and that is how the Mcculla Movement was born. The piece went on to be honored as Best Emerging Artist audience voted at Awakenings and Beginnings International Dance Festival 2018. The Mcculla Movement went on to choreograph for American theatre Circus, California Contemporary Ballet , Disneyland’s Frozen show, commercial music videos and more. July 2018 the Mcculla movement was gifted residency at Highways Performance space in Santa Monica and performed for Dance for Montecito in Santa Barbara. In 2019 the Mcculla movement performed at the Broad theatre in Hollywood for Nachmo la, front and main festival, raw artists showcase in Hollywood, Huntington Beach choreographers showcase and more. In 2020 during Covid Katie developed BodyMap and was awarded a grant from DCA to develop the technique and was featured in the artists showcase online. Currently Katie teaches at California Dance Theatre and for the LAUSD. She is a company member with Louise Reichlin and Dancers. Recently , The Mcculla Movement’s piece Rodeo was debuted at the San Pedro triarts festival sept. 2022. In Fall of 2022 the Mcculla Movement debuted a new work titled Variations in Optimism for Santa Monica colleges dance company Synapse Dance theatre. In Fall 2023 choreographed for Global Motion Dance theatre.
The solo debuting for San Pedro Triarts 2024 is called Boxed and created during a time in the choreographers life that was uncertain (2017). She revisited in 2020 as a response to the Covid pandemic and now (2024) as a response to motherhood. It is a structured improv piece based deeply in emotive response. The choreographer is proud to share her interpretations of life through dance across the span of time. Yet, her greatest accomplishment is being a wife and a mother of four beautiful children.
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