KATIE HATFIELD
DANCE WITH ME, COMMUNITY CLASSES & SUMMER CAMPS

Katie Hatfield was born and raised in Seattle. She began her dance journey at a Magnolia community ballet/tap class when her parents sought a different venue than their front room for her leaping off the walls and furniture. After stints with Seattle Children’s Ballet directed by Laura Denke, Ballet Arts Center in Bellevue, and the Eastside’s Dance Lab with incomparable instruction by Flemming Halby of the Royal Danish Ballet and Sara de Luis - both who joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet School faculty when Dance Lab closed; Katie found her ballet home at Washington Dance Forum where she received exceptional foundational training in ballet & modern from the owner couple, Suzanne Keener and Tom Richebacher.

Alongside ballet, Katie loved the dancing, singing, and acting aspects of musical theatre. Her first community production at age 7 was A Christmas Carol as one of the Cratchit children, performed at Bellevue College’s Carlson Theatre. She caught the theatre bug with that show and performed and danced in several other community productions in Bellevue and Issaquah including The Wizard of Oz; The Music Man; Bye, Bye Birdie; Annie; & Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Katie attended the University of Utah with the initial idea of being a ballet major in their renowned program. However, still smitten with the musical theatre bug, she swapped her pointe shoes for character, jazz, and tap shoes and continued dancing her way through productions of Oklahoma!; Funny Girl; Singin’ in the Rain; The Pajama Game; Kiss me Kate; and Fiddler on the Roof among others at the Hale Centre Theatre in Salt Lake City, The Grand Theatre, Hale Center Theater Orem, and Brigham Young University.

Intent on sharing her joy in dance and theatre with others, Katie became a Theatre Education major and a Modern Dance minor at Brigham Young University. She guest taught and choreographed for local area elementary and high schools as well as youth programs at Hale Center Theater Orem in Utah. Once back in the Pacific Northwest, Katie guest taught and choreographed for The Overlake School’s project week, as a Kindergarten creative movement instructor, the after-school program instructor at The Eton School for creative movement and preballet, the summer dance & art camp instructor for Emerald Ballet Theatre and the City of Redmond, and currently as the ballet teacher for the City of Redmond community classes in creative movement and preballet, and the Dance with Me instructor at Emerald Ballet Theatre.

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