Kathy Luo
Choreographer | Educator Researcher
Kathy Luo is a multifaceted dance artist and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her academic occupation includes her role serving as a full time visiting faculty at the University of Kentucky, as well as the teaching credits at Arizona State University and Asbury University. Kathy holds a M.F.A. in Dance along with the Dance Artist Teaching Praxis Certificate from Arizona State University. Her professional skills range from Modern Dance technique, Contemporary Dance, Ballet to Asian Diaspora Dance study and Yoga/Pilates training. Kathy's dance research focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration in immersive theater and site-specific dance settings. Kathy is interested in evoking a wide range of audience participation to honor our diverse social identities that provoke critical and thoughtful discourse and bring different disciplines together to initiate creative ownership.
As a professional dancer, Kathy has been dancing with different dance companies, which include her collaboration with the Desert Dance Theatre and dance film project with the Krakenstillandfilm Contemporary Dance Company. Kathy has attended American College Dance Association (ACDA) conference, National Dance Education Organization Conference (NDEO), Las Vegas Dance in the Desert Festival, L.A. Feedback Film Festival, Utah Dance Film Festival, and Arizona Dance Festival. Currently, Kathy is working on her conference presentation for the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). She is the selected artist for 2023 Mark DeGarmo Dance’s transcultural and trans-disciplinary Virtual Salon Performance in New York City.
