Photo by André Daughtry
Kay Ottinger has moved through New York as a dancer, performance coordinator and curator since 2010. Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Kay moved to New York in 2006 to attend Sarah Lawrence College where she focused her studies in Dance. She has had the pleasure to perform with choreographers such as Ivy Baldwin, Okwui Okpokwasili, Ursula Eagly, Kathy Westwater, Kim Brandt, Rebecca Davis, Priscilla Marrero, Christopher Williams, Louis Malvacias, Molly Poerstel Taylor, and in the revivals of Lucinda Child’s Radial Courses and Carolee Shcneeman’s Lateral Splay.
Kay had the wonderful opportunity to coordinate Movement Research at Judson Church and Open Performance from ‘14 - ‘18. She has conceived and curated numerous group shows at places around Queens and Brooklyn whose evenings are built around the combination of time, space, and performance practice. Her latest iteration, Faith, was live-streamed through Judson Arts Wednesdays in 2020.
Kay is currently living between New York and Colombia where she is working with her husband, André Daughtry, on his project Wilderness in Silvia, Cauca and Bogotá. She continues expanding on the performance practice she began in October 2020 with 3 artistic mentors. It began as an experiment in approaching learning an artistic practice or piece from a student/teacher perspective vs dancer/choreographer. The practice has stemmed out and into themes of mentorship, artistic pedagogy, de-velopment and transmission. She is grateful to Eleanor Hullihan, Melanie Maar, and Samita Sinha for sharing their practices with her.
Please read more about her current project here