Szykman’s choreographic practice and teaching style is centered in creating an equitable, engaging, and collaborative work environment for all artists.

Katie Szykman is a Virginia-raised and Philadelphia based choreographer, educator and performance artist. Her focus is to create a space of equity, healing, and confrontation within the dance community. Working with her lived experiences of being a disabled dancer with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) as well as words and emotions that have been placed, felt, and shared with her, Szykman’s choreographic works circulate around the questions of: What is dance? What is work? What is the human experience? How do we work in uncomfortability? Szykman’s choreographic practice and teaching style is centered in creating an equitable, engaging, and collaborative work environment for all artists. For the last five years she has taught at multiple studios, including at the Bolshoi Ballet 2021 Summer Intensive as the senior jazz and modern teacher. In May 2023 Szykman graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance from University of the Arts. At UArts she studied under Donna Faye Burchfield, Sara Procopio, Paul Matteson, Curt Haworth, Shannon Murphy, and Michael Sheridan.

Photograph- Hailey Jackson