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Welcome to Soft Focus, my new Substack!
I started it because I wanted a less pressurized place to think out loud about performance, AI, motherhood, labor, and what it takes to keep making art in a world that feels increasingly unstable.
The first piece is up. It’s an update about being between academic structures, losing the safety net of an institution, and trying to stay close to the work of creativity no matter what.
Read + subscribe at the link in bio

Welcome to Soft Focus, my new Substack!
I started it because I wanted a less pressurized place to think out loud about performance, AI, motherhood, labor, and what it takes to keep making art in a world that feels increasingly unstable.
The first piece is up. It’s an update about being between academic structures, losing the safety net of an institution, and trying to stay close to the work of creativity no matter what.
Read + subscribe at the link in bio

Welcome to Soft Focus, my new Substack!
I started it because I wanted a less pressurized place to think out loud about performance, AI, motherhood, labor, and what it takes to keep making art in a world that feels increasingly unstable.
The first piece is up. It’s an update about being between academic structures, losing the safety net of an institution, and trying to stay close to the work of creativity no matter what.
Read + subscribe at the link in bio

Welcome to Soft Focus, my new Substack!
I started it because I wanted a less pressurized place to think out loud about performance, AI, motherhood, labor, and what it takes to keep making art in a world that feels increasingly unstable.
The first piece is up. It’s an update about being between academic structures, losing the safety net of an institution, and trying to stay close to the work of creativity no matter what.
Read + subscribe at the link in bio

Welcome to Soft Focus, my new Substack!
I started it because I wanted a less pressurized place to think out loud about performance, AI, motherhood, labor, and what it takes to keep making art in a world that feels increasingly unstable.
The first piece is up. It’s an update about being between academic structures, losing the safety net of an institution, and trying to stay close to the work of creativity no matter what.
Read + subscribe at the link in bio

More from our our recent Breaking Counterpoint show in DC @danceplacedc with @liminaldancefilmfestivalLooking forward to our upcoming @mdffparkway residency in Baltimore this fall and looking forward to continuing our research into realtime media @onassis.onx here in NYC this coming year.

Conceived by guitarist and producer @zaneforshee with composer @wendelpatrickofficialmusic. Choreographed by @orangegrovedance, with real-time interactive computational media by @mingyong_art + @classicshimmy, direction by @khfdance through @hyperreallabs, lighting by @pfalvi, and danced by @london_likethecity @elan.robinson11 @levi_coy_ and Colette Krogol.

Really grateful to be in the room with this beautiful team.

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#BreakingCounterpoint #danceandnewmedia#touchdesigner #realtime

More from our first play session @onassis.onx with wonderful dance artists @renabutler and @olivialburgess with @hyperreallabs network designed by @classicshimmy I love the potential for these choreographic interfaces to score improvisation!
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#interactivemedia #touchdesigner #danceandnewmedia

Play-testing time in the @onassis.onx with the luminous @renabutler and @renabutler
Shimmy Boyle designed a wild new real-time AI tethered photography setup for our new studio @hyperreallabs , and we’ve been experimenting with how it might live inside performance. I’ve been using this interface in my ongoing new media piece Cyborg Mirror- super greatful to access to space so we can research new dramaturgical possibilities for this work- which takes time!
It’s one thing to see machine vision transforming the body in real time. It’s another thing again to imagine an audience seeing their own image returned through a technology that is re-authoring them.
I’m interested in AI aesthetics beyond spectacle and slop. The trash imagery. The uncanny residue. The mutant glamour. The strange ghosts. I want to look at these images critically, but I also want to admit that I’m drawn to their ugliness and wild magic.
The questions get deep quickly. Who gets to author these technologies? What kinds of bodies do they recognize? What ideas of beauty and power do they reproduce? And how do artists get a seat at the table in terms of authorship before these systems become invisible infrastructure in live performance and beyond?
Let’s make some dances!
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#HyperrealLabs#OnassisONX #RealtimeAI #touchdesigner #danceandnewmedia

Another peek at our recent Breaking Counterpoint show in DC @danceplacedc with @liminaldancefilmfestivalLooking forward to our upcoming @mdffparkway residency in Baltimore this fall!

Conceived by guitarist and producer @zaneforshee with composer @wendelpatrickofficialmusic. Choreographed by @orangegrovedance, with real-time interactive computational media by @mingyong_art + @classicshimmy, direction by @khfdance through @hyperreallabs, lighting by @pfalvi, and danced by @london_likethecity @elan.robinson11 @levi_coy_ and Colette Krogol.

Really grateful to be in the room with this beautiful team.

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#BreakingCounterpoint #BaltimoreArts #ElectricCounterpoint #touchdesigner #realtime

Applications are open for the 2026/27 cycle of The Desert Door Rest + Resilience Residency in Joshua Tree.

Six artists will receive residencies of up to one month, with stipends to support time, space, and rest in the high desert.

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A little over a month left to apply — deadline June 1. Link in bio. Desert drone @voyeurloop 🙏🏽

#artistresidency #highdesert #danceresidency

🎬 Step into LIMINAL

In the days leading up, we’re spotlighting the films that make up LIMINAL 2026, a collection of bold, imaginative works from around the world.

April 24–26 at Dance Place in Washington, DC�3 days. 70 films. 18 countries.

A gathering of movement, cinema, and imagination—experienced together.

Join us to step inside the worlds these images come from�🔗 Link in bio

🎞️ Featuring: DYAD �🌍 USA, 2025�🎬 Direction: Katherine Helen Fisher | Choreography: Allysen Hooks�🗓️ Friday, 4/24 at 7PM

DYAD poetically explores the resilience and fragility of the human form set against the stark beauty of California’s Mojave Desert towns. Directed by Katherine Helen Fisher with choreography by Allysen Hooks, the film follows two female dancers in evocative cycles of collision and symbiosis. Cinematographer Sinziana Velicescu emphasizes the aesthetics of emptiness and the disappearing sustainability of the landscape through minimalist visuals, sparse architecture, and expansive barren terrains. Meticulous editing and immersive sound design by John Walter, combined with Astrid Sonne’s tightly driven score, heighten the film’s meditation on vulnerability and ephemerality. Through metaphors of mitosis, DYAD subtly reflects humanity’s impact on Earth’s delicate ecosystems, offering a contemplative vision of connection and identity in the Anthropocene.

#liminaldancefilmfestival #liminaldff2026

Applications are now open for the 2026/27 cycle of The Desert Door Rest + Resilience Residency in Joshua Tree. The deadline to apply is June 1.
This cycle will support six artists in residencies of up to one month, with stipends to help make it that time possible.
Located just minutes from Joshua Tree Village and the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, The Desert Door is centered in a four-bedroom, two-bath house with a sprung-floor dance studio, a separate casita studio for solitude and focused work, and space for communal cooking, conversation, and collaborative process. Set within the stillness and scale of the high desert, the residency invites artists to step away from the constant demand to be productive and return to conditions that are often harder to secure: time to reflect, space to let go of outcomes, and permission to rest.
The Desert Door was founded by Katherine Helen Fisher and Shimmy Boyle, and this cycle is directed by Fisher with Caroline Haydon serving as co-curator.
We are especially grateful to Dr. Caroline Chase Adams, our inaugural donor, whose generosity has made it possible to codify and formalize the residency. Her philanthropic vision is grounded in the belief that support for artists can be grassroots, relational, and deeply personal; that cultural stewardship can begin at a human scale; and that artists deserve material support not only for production, but for the conditions that sustain a life in practice.
Learn more and apply via the link in bio.
Key art @casualtimetravel
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#artistresidency #highdesert #danceresidency

Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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.#performanceart #hci #aiperformance

Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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.#performanceart #hci #aiperformance

Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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.#performanceart #hci #aiperformance

Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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Thank you to everyone who came out to CYBORG MIRROR at @everywomanbiennial

CYBORG MIRROR • March 21, 2026
Presented at @penandbrushnyc

Created and performed by Katherine Helen Fisher with collaborators @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @iamfinley @vviota @jaeneal @elowah @augusthenders @yumedaaa

Supported by @baibrownu @movementlabbarnard
With thanks to curators @iamfinley @mollmcaldwell @erinkostudios
An evolving solo exploring live performance and mediated images through networked, real-time AI tools with @hyperreallabs
Documentation photos: @dondotnet
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First of four performances at @everywomanbiennial’s New Media night. “Cyborg Mirror” by @khfdance.

Cyborg Mirror! Free to all… Tonight @penandbrushnyc 7pm @everywomanbiennial with @iamfinley @mingyong_art @classicshimmy @hyperreallabs @vviota @elowah @yumedaaa @xrensemble @hanzhangpqqo @erinkostudios @anqiliumusic @desigh.co Photo: @photo_by_baranova

Check out this curatorial walkthrough by Lou Forster of Lucinda Childs – Dancing Page in Hand at @fracbretagne.
Included in this beautifully designed exhibition opening in Rennes, France is Street Dance, a film documenting the reconstruction of Lucinda Childs’ 1964 work. The show offers a rare opportunity to encounter Lucinda’s practice through archival materials, films, photographs, drawings, and documents that illuminate the postmodern dance experiments that reshaped the field.
Originally choreographed and performed by Lucinda Childs in New York in 1964, and later reperformed in 1965 at Robert Rauschenberg’s request, Street Dance returns to todays sidewalks and lofts of SoHo as a work of living history.
Created for Lucinda Childs – Dancing Page in Hand (2026), curated by @lou_forster.
Exhibition:�Lucinda Childs – Dancing Page in Hand�@fracbretagne�January 30–May 24, 2026�
Street Dance�Performed by @davidthomson.nyc and @lucindachildsofficial�Directed by me, @khfdance�Produced by @theblanketarts�A film by @safetythirdproductions
With deep thanks to our collaborators:�DP @casualtimetravel�Editor @basebalzac�Colorist @mokshchitkara�Advising Producer @billtunnicliffe�Line Producer @juliaasher_�Still Photography @photo_by_baranova�Camera Team @larkindonleydp @alanwinslow @devondonis�Production Assistants @soraya.omt + Samuel Miller + Abraham Chan Gomez�Audio Recording Engineer Isaac Siber
Co-produced and co-commissioned by @thekitchen_nyc @fracbretagne @fracfranchecomte @centredartlelait�Supported by @rauschenbergfoundation @villa.albertine @foundationforcontemporaryarts @jmuocp @collabartsnyu�Co-presented by @performanyc
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#StreetDance #LucindaChilds #FracBretagne #LouForster #danceoncamera