MOVER & MAKER
MOVER & MAKER
KAT
DANCER | CHOREOGRAPHER 
MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE
KATERINA ENG BECKMAN
Kat moves through life as a freelance dancer, choreographer and creative facilitator. She has a passion for collaboration and strives to erase the boundaries that exist between art mediums.
As the Founder & Creative Facilitator of OTHER ODE Kat seeks to bring meaningful change to the dance industry by implementing equitable practices that center the dancers’ experiences.
Alongside the OTHER ODE Dance Advisory Board, she aims to create empowering work practices that can be applied to dance production, programming selection, and dancer support.
Kat takes pride in her Peranakan and Australian roots. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her ballet training from SF Ballet School.
In 2018, she received a BFA in dance from The Juilliard School, where she went on to dance lead roles in works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Jessica Lang and Wayne McGregor.
Kat currently freelances as a dancer & choreographer in the SF Bay Area. She has performed works by Dani Rowe, Martha Graham, Tara Bucknor, Marika Brussel, Andrea Schermoly, Kimberly Marie Olivier, and Olivier Wevers.
Her choreographic work has been performed in New York City at the White Wave Soloduo Dance Festival and at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in Juilliard’s 2018 Choreographic Honors, and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. .
She has also danced and created movement for fashion designers Christian Siriano, Tory Burch, Lan Jaenicke, Victor Tung, and Camelia Skikos.
In partnership with Rise Arts, Kat was the co-creator & choreographer of films ‘As Big as the Sky’ and ‘Veiled’. Both films have been shown at film festivals across the US and internationally.
