kt williams (she/her) is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer, educator, and dance filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. She earned her MFA in Dance/Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Donald Carducci Memorial Scholarship Award for overall excellence in dance performance. As an artist, kt is curious about the intersections between history, space, and emotion and their somatic influence on the body. She is a practitioner of Safety Release Technique, and leans on her experiences with postmodern dance practices and somatic methods to support and deepen her movement research with release technique. kt’s teaching and creative practice is collaborative in nature, as she genuinely believes working in community fosters the wellbeing and sustainability of the artist-citizen.