“Ms. Dyer made her dancing angels look happily awhirl and agog. They swept onstage in breezy buoyant surges, and retreated in gentle ebbs of movement.”
Jack Anderson, New York Times
Repetoire
“Dyer possesses a talent to make the stage pulse at will. She has created sequences where the entire stage vibrates, matching composer Richard Einhorn’s lift, escalation and intensity skillfully.” Anne Mecurio, Exploredance
An ode to Southern roots meaning “I’ll be there unless…..” But there’s almost always an “unless” outside of our control…
so enjoy it. Accompanied by Beethoven's unfinished Rondo "Rage over a Lost Penny" deliciously played by pianist Monica Horn. In tiny sharp movements – like little shakes of the head – Dyer brims with personality.”
Clare Croft, The Washington Post
From
A quartet finds itself lost in a forest of heartbreak. Amid broken trees and stumps representing the past, the dancers emotionally tumble as separation and loss trumps connection. All revealing the lesson that the move forward requires some breaking for building.

Going
While traveling along a bucolic road, created through projected video, we meet a series of individuals, opening their hearts to reveal their twists and turns from the journey behind as they attempt to shape the road ahead. In tiny sharp movements – like little shakes of the head – Dyer brims with personality.”
Clare Croft, The Washington Post
Mysterious and aggressive, set against a mountainous backdrop, a quartet of women wrestle and clamor over each other in a competitive bid for control with ropes meant to connect and support. Vinegar Hill glimpses the souring of camaraderie as the desire for autonomy erodes the relationships that once physically and spiritually bound them together.
I’m all in favor of distractions. This particular distraction sets one protagonist in comedic and poignant caricatures vying against an ensemble that embodies confusion, misdirection, repetition, and frenzy. The original commissioned musical score by long-term collaborator Cristina Spinei highlights the dissonance and group trappings that the dancer faces as she tries to sync and find comedy in the chaos.
Inspired by a painting of a violent storm brewing over a single blade of grass, dancers pursue the potent resiliency in nature to overcome the tumultuous human condition. How do we handle the moments on the brink – Some bend at our adversary and bounce back and some fall at their breaking point. We pave our own way seeking the power of resiliency.

Evening Length works

Gravity on a crossing, the distraction is weight and undulating apprehension. While the travelers navigate the physics and magnitude of the journey, they ultimately realize the necessity of others to travel upward. Here the pushing and pulling of the community finally allows moments of weightlessness.
Wide Asleep
A comedic exploration of the peculiar disjointed ideas that spark within
those half-awake wee morning hours -
caught in a fleeting, inexplicable world of uncertainty, embarrassment, and
mystery - maybe even half-dressed, running to nowhere, with a armload of oranges while your feet turn into water and it seems completely plausible.

Formula is an escalating layering of duets set to Zoe Keating’s optimistic looping cello compositions. Insistent melodies and inventive links with circular undualtions that blast and ebb across the stage reinforce the necessity of allies as the best medicine for progress.
This evening length work takes inspiration from iconic female philosopher Ayn Rand’s Romantic Manifesto to boistrously champion the individual. Through a fusion vocabulary of a of graceful virtuosity and idiosyncratic nuances, KDNY captures the oscillating nature of the ideal amid a community of minds. To an original score for string quartet by NY composer, Cristina Spinei, Ms. Dyer uses movable sets and projected video to construct layers of warmth, entanglement, or comedy so that each moment offers multiple definitions and rearrangements of our observations.
A journey into an ephemeral home, an almost heaven, where the truly innocent eternally abound. Five women perform to original music performed live by PJ Merola against a backdrop of site-specific video. As the score, video, and movement evolves, the compassionate residents of Limbo embrace the disconsolate Sheridan, slowly washing away her past and her sorrow. Finally flourishing in the unimaginable bliss and splendor of her new home, she joins the welcoming cycle.
Charges from Domremy
The tale of the courage and humility of Joan of Arc is told vividly through the beauty of an emotive cast to the hauntingly beautiful orotorio 'Voice of LIght" by Richard Einhorn. “Choreographer Kathleen Dyer concentrates on subtle, expressive movements that evoke the passage of time and give powerful voice to [Joan of Arc's] internal conflict.” Nick Green, Washington City Paper
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