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Kathy Westwater has choreographically pursued experimental dance forms since 1996. Her work responds to the social landscape in which it manifests, often by taking up our most challenging experiences such as pain, as with her Bessie-nominated Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part (2019). With other major works, she has explored the built environments of monuments (Anywhere, 2016) and landfills and parks (PARK, 2008-present); war and pain (Macho, 2008); intersections of human and animal culture (twisted, tack, broken, 2005); and more.