SELECTED SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT & COLLABORATIONS
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DANCE and THEATRE (performance highlights):
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CHOREOGRAPHY (selected) besides original works:
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TRAINING
- Tomson Highway's playwriting course, 2006
- Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit creation and performance lab, 2004
- Dance and creation workshops with Claudia Moore, Kate Alton, Karine Denault, Charles Linehan (UK), Denise Fujiwara and others
- Voice with Fides Krucker
- Voice with Richard Armstrong
- Creative Writing with P. Pemberton
- Clown through Mask with Sue Morrison
- The Source Room, Grotowskian method with Fiona Griffiths
- Methods of Acting with George Luscombe
- Ballet and modern dance with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet summer school, Toronto Dance Theatre, Nfld. Dance Theatre (among others)
OTHER BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
- script adaptation and director for Mysterious Entity Theatre's production of The Taming of the Shrew, Market Hall, 2008
- co-founder and counsellor for Peterborough's Rock Camp for Girls, 2005-present
- taught movement/performance at Peterborough's Youth Emergency Shelter with Bill James' Other Voices, Other Lives project for street-involved youth
- Administrative Assistant for Peterborough New Dance and Public Energy
- Movement instructor at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's 2003 summer programme
- Perform as "Namonia Phelps" with musician Curtis Driedger for In From the Cold, a benefit for Peterborough's street Youth Emergency Shelter, 2001-present
- Lead singer for girl-punk-band The Estrogems
- Former board member of Peterborough Arts Umbrella
- Periodicals Manager at Marginal Distribution, 1999-2003
- BA Honours (Cultural Studies) Trent University, Peterborough, ON
- Tomson Highway's playwriting course, 2006
- Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit creation and performance lab, 2004
- Dance and creation workshops with Claudia Moore, Kate Alton, Karine Denault, Charles Linehan (UK), Denise Fujiwara and others
- Voice with Fides Krucker
- Voice with Richard Armstrong
- Creative Writing with P. Pemberton
- Clown through Mask with Sue Morrison
- The Source Room, Grotowskian method with Fiona Griffiths
- Methods of Acting with George Luscombe
- Ballet and modern dance with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet summer school, Toronto Dance Theatre, Nfld. Dance Theatre (among others)
OTHER BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
- script adaptation and director for Mysterious Entity Theatre's production of The Taming of the Shrew, Market Hall, 2008
- co-founder and counsellor for Peterborough's Rock Camp for Girls, 2005-present
- taught movement/performance at Peterborough's Youth Emergency Shelter with Bill James' Other Voices, Other Lives project for street-involved youth
- Administrative Assistant for Peterborough New Dance and Public Energy
- Movement instructor at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre's 2003 summer programme
- Perform as "Namonia Phelps" with musician Curtis Driedger for In From the Cold, a benefit for Peterborough's street Youth Emergency Shelter, 2001-present
- Lead singer for girl-punk-band The Estrogems
- Former board member of Peterborough Arts Umbrella
- Periodicals Manager at Marginal Distribution, 1999-2003
- BA Honours (Cultural Studies) Trent University, Peterborough, ON
Adapted the Shakespeare text and directed the production for Mysterious Entity Theatre
Writer/performer with Mysterious Entity Theatre
Dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and
performed in collaboration with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
A multi-disciplinary collaboration
Adapted the tale for Arbour Theatre; subsequently developed it as a musical with musicians Rob Fortin & Susan Newman
Works inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with Ground Zero
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times directed by Caroline Azar
Writer/performer with Mysterious Entity Theatre
Dramaturge for Ryan Kerr's play based upon John Rauston Saul's Unconscious Civilization, developed and
performed in collaboration with The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
A multi-disciplinary collaboration
Adapted the tale for Arbour Theatre; subsequently developed it as a musical with musicians Rob Fortin & Susan Newman
Works inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with 4th Line Theatre
Collaborative script development with Ground Zero
Staged reading at Buddies in Bad Times directed by Caroline Azar
The Taming of the Shrew
Skirting the Edge
The Democracy Project
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy
Hansel and Gretel
SEASKUM:(A)Mended Dream
Crossings: The Bell of Batoche
Fair Play
4th Line Farm Show
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Play With Fire, author:
Skirting the Edge
The Democracy Project
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy
Hansel and Gretel
SEASKUM:(A)Mended Dream
Crossings: The Bell of Batoche
Fair Play
4th Line Farm Show
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Play With Fire, author:
Market Hall (YDK Project) / Susan Spicer
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Public participant outdoor contemporary dance, co-choreographed with Bill James for ArtsWeek
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Peterborough New Dance / Patrick Walsh
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Patria / R. Murray Schafer
Ptbo. women's theatre collective
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Theatre Resource Centre / Sarah Phillips
4th Line / season choreographer
Theatre Trent / choreographer
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Public participant outdoor contemporary dance, co-choreographed with Bill James for ArtsWeek
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Peterborough New Dance / Patrick Walsh
Peterborough New Dance / Curtis Driedger
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Patria / R. Murray Schafer
Ptbo. women's theatre collective
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
Theatre Resource Centre / Sarah Phillips
4th Line / season choreographer
Theatre Trent / choreographer
You Don't Know The Half Of It
Joy of Blood
Dancin in the Streets
Streets of Laredo
I was a postcard
The Bottle Let Me Down
Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Hansel and Gretel
The Enchanted Forest
SEASKUM
Snow White
Cinderella
Salome
Seton / 4th Line Farm Show
The Yellow Wallpaper
Joy of Blood
Dancin in the Streets
Streets of Laredo
I was a postcard
The Bottle Let Me Down
Alice in a Winter Wonderland
Hansel and Gretel
The Enchanted Forest
SEASKUM
Snow White
Cinderella
Salome
Seton / 4th Line Farm Show
The Yellow Wallpaper
Company / Director
Mysterious Entity @ Workman Arts / Em Glasspool
Emergency #18, Market Hall
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Artsweek
Artsweek / Brad Brackenridge
Mysterious Entity tour / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Market Hall / Em Glasspool
Atlas Moves Watching / Bill James
Emergency #12, P'boro
Emergency,P'boro,& Danceworks,Ottawa / Anne Ryan
Patria / R. Murray Schafer
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Atlas Moves Watching Dance Proj. / Bill James
Ptbo. women's theatre collective
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
DanceWorks / Meagan O'Shea
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
4th Line Theatre / Arturo Freselone
4th Line Theatre / Susan Spicer
Nightwood Theatre / Alisa Palmer
Bananafish Productions / Kelly Thornton
Theatre Resource Centre / Sarah Phillips
4th Line Theatre / Robert Winslow
4th Line Theatre / Susan Spicer
4th Line Theatre
Ground Zero / Don Bouzek
Union Theatre / Susan Spicer
Writer's Workshop Theatre / Susan Spicer
4th Line Theatre / Robert Winslow
East City Productions / Robert Winslow
Ground Zero Productions / Don Bouzek
Dick's Kids (Nfld.) / Chuck Herriot
DNA / Hillar Liitoja
Caravan Stage Co. / Paul Kirby
Mysterious Entity @ Workman Arts / Em Glasspool
Emergency #18, Market Hall
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Artsweek
Artsweek / Brad Brackenridge
Mysterious Entity tour / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Market Hall / Em Glasspool
Atlas Moves Watching / Bill James
Emergency #12, P'boro
Emergency,P'boro,& Danceworks,Ottawa / Anne Ryan
Patria / R. Murray Schafer
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
Atlas Moves Watching Dance Proj. / Bill James
Ptbo. women's theatre collective
Mysterious Entity / Em Glasspool
DanceWorks / Meagan O'Shea
Arbour Theatre / Ray Henderson
4th Line Theatre / Arturo Freselone
4th Line Theatre / Susan Spicer
Nightwood Theatre / Alisa Palmer
Bananafish Productions / Kelly Thornton
Theatre Resource Centre / Sarah Phillips
4th Line Theatre / Robert Winslow
4th Line Theatre / Susan Spicer
4th Line Theatre
Ground Zero / Don Bouzek
Union Theatre / Susan Spicer
Writer's Workshop Theatre / Susan Spicer
4th Line Theatre / Robert Winslow
East City Productions / Robert Winslow
Ground Zero Productions / Don Bouzek
Dick's Kids (Nfld.) / Chuck Herriot
DNA / Hillar Liitoja
Caravan Stage Co. / Paul Kirby
Title
Skirting The Edge
Performances May Be
Permanent
Skirting The Edge
Performances May Be
Permanent
Terror and Erebus
Hamlet In A Hurry
Hamlet In A Hurry
My Gender Assignment
The Black Diamond
Skirting the Edge
MacBeth the Musical
Progress Avenue
The Bottle Let Me Down
Elemental: Water
The Enchanted Forest
The Vagina Monologues
Panopticon
SEASKUM
Macbeth for Six
Meet Me at Eight
Cinderella
Crossings: the Bell of Batoche
The Stone Angel
The Skriker
The Visit
Salome
The Cavan Blazers
Seton
4th Line Farm Show
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
A Particular Class of Women
Nobody Likes the Ugly Fish
The Winslows of Derryvore
Hamlet in a Hurry
Allos: Sarah's Story
King Lear
POUNDEMONIUM
The Coming
Skirting The Edge
Performances May Be
Permanent
Skirting The Edge
Performances May Be
Permanent
Terror and Erebus
Hamlet In A Hurry
Hamlet In A Hurry
My Gender Assignment
The Black Diamond
Skirting the Edge
MacBeth the Musical
Progress Avenue
The Bottle Let Me Down
Elemental: Water
The Enchanted Forest
The Vagina Monologues
Panopticon
SEASKUM
Macbeth for Six
Meet Me at Eight
Cinderella
Crossings: the Bell of Batoche
The Stone Angel
The Skriker
The Visit
Salome
The Cavan Blazers
Seton
4th Line Farm Show
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
A Particular Class of Women
Nobody Likes the Ugly Fish
The Winslows of Derryvore
Hamlet in a Hurry
Allos: Sarah's Story
King Lear
POUNDEMONIUM
The Coming
Role
Writer / Performer
Writer / Solo Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Solo Performer
Performer
Gertrude
Gertrude
Writer / Performer
Rhonda
Writer / Performer
Loch Ness Monster
dancer
saloon vivante
dancer
Shape Shifter
performer
workshop performer
writer/director/performer
Lady Macbeth / witch
dancer
evil step-sister
Teresa / Lucy
various
Underworld creatures
various
Page
Rutherford
various
collective
Alice
Clown Angel
Kathy
Ciara
Ophelia
principal puppeteer
Regan
principal
various / and design
Writer / Performer
Writer / Solo Performer
Writer / Performer
Writer / Solo Performer
Performer
Gertrude
Gertrude
Writer / Performer
Rhonda
Writer / Performer
Loch Ness Monster
dancer
saloon vivante
dancer
Shape Shifter
performer
workshop performer
writer/director/performer
Lady Macbeth / witch
dancer
evil step-sister
Teresa / Lucy
various
Underworld creatures
various
Page
Rutherford
various
collective
Alice
Clown Angel
Kathy
Ciara
Ophelia
principal puppeteer
Regan
principal
various / and design
RESUME
Kate Story is a writer, performer, and choreographer originally from Newfoundland who creates performance works characterized by elements of dance, theatre
and performance art, often in collaboration with artists from other disciplines - musicians, choreographers, designers. She has been twice nominated (2004 and
2006) for the Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artists Award, and in 2005 (as part of Peterborough's centennial celebrations) she was named one of the region's
100 most important performing artists.
ORIGINAL WORKS
Performances May be Permanent (2010, 2011)
Writer, choreographer, solo performer. Directed by Ker Wells. Design by Martha Cockshutt. Music by Derek Bell (along with Glenn Gould himself).
Irish Stew (2006-ongoing)
Co-creator with artists Dy Gallagher and Patti Shaughnessy
Sadleir Movement (2008)
Choreographer and performer in Peterborough's first full-length dance film. Created with filmmaker Michael Morritt.
Cover (2007)
Choreographer and coodinator of full-length evening to a live cover of Radiohead's The Bends; Emergency Festival, Peterborough New Dance.
Drink Without Crying (2006)
A collaboration with musician Michael Morritt commissioned for Peterborough's ArtsWeek 2006 AlleyWaltz .
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (2006)
A multidisciplinary collaboration with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
- Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, Peterborough, January 2006
" this confluence... produces a fresh language built out of invocations, laments, rituals, choral speech, soliloquies, cat fights and prayers.
It is hypnotic in its repetition and revelatory in its universality."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner, February 3, 2006
Black Fly (2005)
Choreographed with Ryan Kerr, music by Dave Tough.
- Bare Essentials, November 2005; Peterborough Folk Festival, August 2005.
... and again, until we get it. (2005)
A duet performed by Ryan Kerr/Kevin Fitzmaurice and Melissa Webster.
- fFIDA (Toronto, 2005); From the Floor with the Peterborough Dance Collective (March 2005)
"... a fascinating duet for a disabled woman and an able-bodied man where the power between the two keeps shifting."
Paula Citron, "The Best of the Rest," Globe and Mail, August 23 2005
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
- Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough, June 2004
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner, June 24, 2004
Biology as Peepshow (2003)
A work in collaboration with installation artist Caroline Langill
- Neighbourhood Dance Works, St. John's, 2007; Hysteria festival opening night gala, Toronto, October 2003; David Bierk Studio presentation, Peterborough,
October 2003 and March 2005; Shared Habitat 2: Festival of Art and Science, Toronto, June 2003
Adaptation of symposium talk published in Feb-March '03 issue of The Dance Current magazine
Snow Day (2003)
Co-choreographed and performed with Ryan Kerr
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, July 2003; Emergency, Peterborough New Dance, Peterborough, March 2003
"Kerr and Story do a fabulous job...The two careen simultaneously about the stage exuding joy and freedom."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
- Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X Festival, Peterborough, 2002
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
water bill (2002)
Choreographed, designed and performed by Kate Story
- AlleyWaltz, Artsweek, Peterborough, 2005; Moving Pictures Festival, Peterborough, 2002
Open Season on Blood Organs (2001)
Choreographed and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, 2001; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #9 Festival, Peterborough, 2001
"Series G is consistently strong... Blood Organs is cheerfully bizarre..."
Rebecca Todd, Globe
"Evocative... a sinister sort of slapstick... dance enthusiasts will be elated to find this quality of dance in Peterborough."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Irish Versus (2000)
A dance based upon the Irish epic The Tain
Co-choreographed and performed with Dy Gallagher
- Emergency, Peterborough New Dance / Riverbank Productions, Peterborough, 2000
Monologue for a Woman With No Hair (2000-2001)
Choreographed and performed by Kate Story, Written by Bernie Martin, Directed by Susan Spicer,
Music composed and performed by Rosa Barker (in Peterborough), Em Glasspool (in Toronto)
- 23rd Annual RHUBARB! Festival, Toronto, 2001; Peterborough Fringe Festival, Peterborough, 2000
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
Written, designed and performed by Kate Story
- St. John's Fringe Festival, St. John's, 1999; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #7 Festival, Peterborough, 1999
"Kate Story danced her way into the audience's heart with a bar stool, no less... her unique blend of humour and acrobatics... convulsed the audience."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Wine Princess (1999)
Created and performed by Kate Story
- 7a*11d, Performances for an Orange and Violet Room curated by Churla Burla, Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
Written & performed by Kate Story, Choreographed by Dy Gallagher, Music by Patrick Walsh
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, 1998; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #6 Festival, Peterborough, 1998; The LSPU Hall, St. John's,
1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational... Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound..."
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Written, designed and performed by Kate Story, Directed by Liane Gregory
- Summerworks Festival, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, St. John's, 1997; 19th annual RHUBARB! Festival (Toronto, 1997)
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown..."
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Kate Story is a writer, performer, and choreographer originally from Newfoundland who creates performance works characterized by elements of dance, theatre
and performance art, often in collaboration with artists from other disciplines - musicians, choreographers, designers. She has been twice nominated (2004 and
2006) for the Ontario Arts Council's K.M. Hunter Artists Award, and in 2005 (as part of Peterborough's centennial celebrations) she was named one of the region's
100 most important performing artists.
ORIGINAL WORKS
Performances May be Permanent (2010, 2011)
Writer, choreographer, solo performer. Directed by Ker Wells. Design by Martha Cockshutt. Music by Derek Bell (along with Glenn Gould himself).
Irish Stew (2006-ongoing)
Co-creator with artists Dy Gallagher and Patti Shaughnessy
Sadleir Movement (2008)
Choreographer and performer in Peterborough's first full-length dance film. Created with filmmaker Michael Morritt.
Cover (2007)
Choreographer and coodinator of full-length evening to a live cover of Radiohead's The Bends; Emergency Festival, Peterborough New Dance.
Drink Without Crying (2006)
A collaboration with musician Michael Morritt commissioned for Peterborough's ArtsWeek 2006 AlleyWaltz .
The Cure for Sexual Jealousy (2006)
A multidisciplinary collaboration with designer Martha Cockshutt, musician Susan Newman, writer/director Susan Spicer.
- Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, Peterborough, January 2006
" this confluence... produces a fresh language built out of invocations, laments, rituals, choral speech, soliloquies, cat fights and prayers.
It is hypnotic in its repetition and revelatory in its universality."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner, February 3, 2006
Black Fly (2005)
Choreographed with Ryan Kerr, music by Dave Tough.
- Bare Essentials, November 2005; Peterborough Folk Festival, August 2005.
... and again, until we get it. (2005)
A duet performed by Ryan Kerr/Kevin Fitzmaurice and Melissa Webster.
- fFIDA (Toronto, 2005); From the Floor with the Peterborough Dance Collective (March 2005)
"... a fascinating duet for a disabled woman and an able-bodied man where the power between the two keeps shifting."
Paula Citron, "The Best of the Rest," Globe and Mail, August 23 2005
Agoreyphilia (2004)
A dance-theatre collaboration based upon the work of writer/illustrator Edward Gorey, with performer Ryan Kerr, designer Martha Cockshutt, musicians Curtis
Driedger and John McEwan, and other artists.
- Market Hall Theatre, Peterborough, June 2004
"A sensual duet of bodies clanging and clinging... a delightfully droll and polished evening of quips and cranks a la Gorey."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner, June 24, 2004
Biology as Peepshow (2003)
A work in collaboration with installation artist Caroline Langill
- Neighbourhood Dance Works, St. John's, 2007; Hysteria festival opening night gala, Toronto, October 2003; David Bierk Studio presentation, Peterborough,
October 2003 and March 2005; Shared Habitat 2: Festival of Art and Science, Toronto, June 2003
Adaptation of symposium talk published in Feb-March '03 issue of The Dance Current magazine
Snow Day (2003)
Co-choreographed and performed with Ryan Kerr
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, July 2003; Emergency, Peterborough New Dance, Peterborough, March 2003
"Kerr and Story do a fabulous job...The two careen simultaneously about the stage exuding joy and freedom."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (2002)
Written and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger,
Directed by Susan Spicer, Choreographed by Claudia Moore, Designed by Martha Cockshutt
- Peterborough New Dance's Emergency X Festival, Peterborough, 2002
"Kate Story delivers a compelling and energetic performance... humourous, unsettling and memorable."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
water bill (2002)
Choreographed, designed and performed by Kate Story
- AlleyWaltz, Artsweek, Peterborough, 2005; Moving Pictures Festival, Peterborough, 2002
Open Season on Blood Organs (2001)
Choreographed and performed by Kate Story, Music composed and performed by Curtis Driedger
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, 2001; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #9 Festival, Peterborough, 2001
"Series G is consistently strong... Blood Organs is cheerfully bizarre..."
Rebecca Todd, Globe
"Evocative... a sinister sort of slapstick... dance enthusiasts will be elated to find this quality of dance in Peterborough."
Jonothan Fiddler, Peterborough Examiner
Irish Versus (2000)
A dance based upon the Irish epic The Tain
Co-choreographed and performed with Dy Gallagher
- Emergency, Peterborough New Dance / Riverbank Productions, Peterborough, 2000
Monologue for a Woman With No Hair (2000-2001)
Choreographed and performed by Kate Story, Written by Bernie Martin, Directed by Susan Spicer,
Music composed and performed by Rosa Barker (in Peterborough), Em Glasspool (in Toronto)
- 23rd Annual RHUBARB! Festival, Toronto, 2001; Peterborough Fringe Festival, Peterborough, 2000
Crazy... Crazy Like a Fish (1999)
Written, designed and performed by Kate Story
- St. John's Fringe Festival, St. John's, 1999; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #7 Festival, Peterborough, 1999
"Kate Story danced her way into the audience's heart with a bar stool, no less... her unique blend of humour and acrobatics... convulsed the audience."
Bea Quarrie, Peterborough Examiner
Wine Princess (1999)
Created and performed by Kate Story
- 7a*11d, Performances for an Orange and Violet Room curated by Churla Burla, Toronto, 1999
Swallowed (1998)
Written & performed by Kate Story, Choreographed by Dy Gallagher, Music by Patrick Walsh
- fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists, Toronto, 1998; Peterborough New Dance's Emergency #6 Festival, Peterborough, 1998; The LSPU Hall, St. John's,
1998
"Bold, creative work... comic and confrontational... Leaves you wanting more."
Paul Rowe, CBC Radio
"a truly manic solo... irreverent to a fault... maintains (an) integrated style."
William Littler, Toronto Star
"The L Series is particularly strong, with Newfoundlander Kate Story offering up a humourous blend of theatre and sound..."
Finbarr O'Reilly, The Globe and Mail
Throat (1997)
Written, designed and performed by Kate Story, Directed by Liane Gregory
- Summerworks Festival, Toronto, 1997; St. John's Fringe Festival, St. John's, 1997; 19th annual RHUBARB! Festival (Toronto, 1997)
"I loved it, it moved me, made me laugh."
St. John's Telegram
"Cleverly costumed in a paper dress... a graceful mover and clown..."
Susan Walker, Toronto Star