Kathryn Dudley is a versatile artist. She has a love for choreography, dance performance, teaching, and stage management. Kathryn is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, attaining a B.A. in Dance Honors and Theatre (emphasis in Stage Management) with minors in Arts Administration and Management. Before college, Kathryn attended Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists in Saint Paul, MN which sparked her love for Modern dance. She grew up dancing at various studios around the Twin Cities but spent a majority of her years at The Dance Factory in Forest Lake, MN. During high school, Kathryn was offered a position Stage Managing for Keane Sense of Rhythm's show for the Minnesota Fringe Festival and after spent a brief time dancing for their Youth Tap Ensemble. During College, she began teaching for Maggie J's Dance Company in North Branch, MN in the summers and as a guest choreographer. At Gustavus she was fortunate enough to perform, choreograph, direct, and stage manage for a variety of shows, all expanding her love for the performing arts and the collaborative process. Since graduation, Kathryn has started a dance company with peers from Gustavus titled ...and Company and has produced two shows with them for the MN Fringe Festivals. She has taught dance at Children's Theatre Company, The Dance Factory, and SteppingStone Theatre, also choreographing and stage managing for theatre productions at the latter. Kathryn relocated to Denver, CO in 2020 for a new creative adventure.


Current Work
Currently, Kathryn is free lance artist in the Denver area. She is a company member with Life/Art Dance Ensemble where she teaches company class on occasion and movement classes for older adults, choreographs for various projects, and performs often. Kathryn teaches youth Tap, Ballet, and Modern/ Contemporary, and Adult DanceAbility at Lakewood Cultural Center. Kathryn has recently become the new Lead Teacher for Feel The Beat where she teaches dancers of all abilities.
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Kathryn is a DanceAbility International® Certified Instructor, Vienna, Austria 2023.
Certification sponsored by Life/Art Dance Ensemble.