Katie Frances Daugherty

ABOUT

Katie Daugherty is a Seattle-based movement artist passionate about performing and creating new works. She graduated with her B.A. from the University of Washington (UW) with a major in dance. Katie began collaboratively creating work alongside Megumi Hosaka under M+K  in 2019. The duo was in a creative residency hosted at Open Flight Studio in Seattle, WA in October 2020 where they produced their first dance film together. Throughout her time at UW she served as the president of the UW Dance Student Association from 2017-2019, was the Director’s Assistant for the Chamber Dance Company in 2018, and was the recipient of the Evelyn H. Green Endowed Scholarship in 2019. Katie has performed in the Seattle International Dance Festival, UW Dance Presents and UW MFA Dance Concert. Her work has been performed at the National High School Dance Festival in Pittsburgh, PA and in the 2018-2020 UW Dance Majors Concerts. She has had the honor of working with artists such as Alethea Alexander, Brian Brooks, Alexandra Bradshaw-Yerby, Rachael Lincoln, Juliet McMains, Adele Nickel, Jennifer Salk, and Hannah Wiley.