Teacher, Repetiteur and Former Principal Dancer, Limón Dance Company

New York City–based dancer, performer, teacher, Limón reconstructor and coach, Kristen Foote is originally from Toronto, Canada, and joined the Limón Dance Company in 2000 – where she was a principal dancer until 2017 – and Dance Heginbotham in 2011.

Hailed by the New York Times as “marvelously versatile” and “especially captivating”, Foote has been recognized by Dance Magazine as a “Featured Artist” during 2011 and 2016, selected as one of the “Most Amazing Performers” of 2010 and one of their “Top 25 To Watch” in 2005.

This year, Foote staged Limón’s Missa Brevis on the Limón Dance Company, marking the work’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The piece will be performed as part of the Company’s 2018 NYC Season at the Joyce Theater.

Ms. Foote has performed as a soloist in roles by many noted choreographers including: José Limón, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Jiří Kylián, Donald McKayle, Lar Lubovitch, Rodrigo Pederneiras, Susanne Linke, Murray Louis and John Heginbotham.

In 2015, she developed a solo dance project, The History of Her, that was lauded as “imposing, musical and subtle”. The project had its international premiere in Paris, France and the U.S. premiere at Jacob’s Pillow Inside Out Series. She has since performed Lar Lubovitch’s solo Scriabin Dances at the Chicago Dancing Festival, American Dance Festival and at Lincoln Center; plus Isadora Duncan’s Revolutionary Etude with Catherine Gallant/DANCE at St.Mark’s Church. Other solos from the project have been featured at The Joyce Theater as part of the
Limón Dance Company’s 70th Anniversary Season: Limón International Dance Festival and Dance Heginbotham’s NYC debut season as well as during the U.S. State Department & BAM’s DanceMotion USA tour throughout South East Asia.

She was a Radio City Rockette, has performed with Mark Morris Dance Group, been featured as a lead dancer in music videos; was a guest artist with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener’s 3D Dance on Film project Tesseract directed by Charles Atlas and was a featured dancer in An Ode To, a performance piece created, composed, choreographed and performed by Solange Knowles for The Red Bull Music Academy Festival at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Foote recently performed in Megan Williams’ One Woman Show at Joe’s Pub, and with Molissa Fenley at Danspace at St. Mark’s Church.

Ms.Foote is a teacher of Limón Master Classes and Workshops, and re-stages Limón repertory across the U.S., Canada and Europe. She teaches Limón technique classes for professional artists and young dancers. She has taught for the Limón Institute’s Summer Youth Intensive, for the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Summer High School Program and for Gallim Dance’s Company classes. She most notably staged José Limón’s Mazurkas on students from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and The Winged on the Canadian Contemporary Dance Theater. Both excerpted works were performed as part of the José Limón International Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater in 2015.

She is attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts for her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Dance.