Award-winning artist Katrina McPherson has been creating screendance for over 20 years. She has wide experience, as a dancer and choreographer, as a director of television arts programmes for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and as a video dance-maker. As director and camera-operator, she has collaborated with many different dance artists and companies, both in Scotland and abroad. Her works are regularly screened and have gained jury awards at international festivals.

Katrina is a much sought-after teacher and has lead master-classes and workshops in UK, USA, Germany, China and Australia. She is the author of ‘Making Video Dance - a step by step guide to creating dance for the screen.’ (Routledge, 2006).

Katrina McPherson writes: My screendance-making practice has always involved improvisation in the development of movement material and in the use of the camera and in the past I was inspired by the post-modern dance practitioners such as Yvonne Rainer and Lucinda Childs. Meeting and beginning to work with Kirstie Simson has, I feel, catapulted my process onto a new level – I have been encouraged to re-find the performer within me, to take courageous steps into the heart of performance that is truly happening in the moment and this is both exciting and challenging. Although usually viewed within the context of screendance, a hybrid form which brings together dance and the moving image, I have always felt that our films are about humanity. Through human movement, framed by a dynamic fluid lens, the work explores the unique and the shared experience of what it is to be human.