Katie Senior

Katie Senior a Canberran artist and athlete with Down Syndrome. She has been dancing and performing since age five and represents Australia as a paralympic swimmer. She has choreographed and performed two solos since 2010: All For One was performed at Belconnen Art Centre to celebrate International Day of People with Disability in 2011 and In The Corner Where The Shadows Meet was for 'Short and Sweet Dance.'

 

It was Katie's first choreographic and dance mentorship project with Liz Lea was funded through the Australia Council’s Jump! program. Katie is also an actress. She is a member of Rebus Mixed Ability Theatre Company and was lead actress in Beautiful, a movie directed by Genevieve Clay and produced in Canberra. Beautiful featured in the Other Film Festival in 2012. Katie and Liz spent all of 2017 working together on a mentoring program which led to the duet’ that extra ‘some’.

 

This took place under the auspice of Belconnen Arts Centre’s IGNITE program. The work premiered in Ausdance ACT’s Escalate II. Katie was awarded the honour of being the 2017 ACT Dance Artist of the Year and nominated as Young Person of the Year at the 2018 Inclusion Awards.Katie runs dance classes across Canberra and was a founding member of the Dream Team. She went on to establish the Xtreme Stars Dance Group for adults who live with disability.

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Katie is a founding member of the Chamaeleon Collective, Canberra's first inclusive dance company and thr first artist living with Down syndrome to participate in a Creative Australia funded exchange in Asia exploring Xtended Reality.