KRISTEN FOOTE is a New York City–based dancer, teacher, performer, and Limón reconstructor, originally from Toronto, Canada. She joined the Limón Dance Company in 2000, where she was a principal dancer until 2017. She is also a founding member of Dance Heginbotham and has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group and was a Radio City Rockette.
Foote has performed in iconic works by José Limón, Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Jiří Kylián, Lar Lubovitch, Donald McKayle, Rodrigo Pederneiras, Susanne Linke, Murray Louis, and John Heginbotham. In 2015, she developed a solo project that premiered in Paris and was later presented at Jacob’s Pillow and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, in partnership with The Watermill Center.
Hailed by The New York Times as “marvelously versatile” and “especially captivating,” Ms. Foote has been recognized by Dance Magazine as a “Featured Artist” in 2011 and in 2016, and as one of the “Most Amazing Performers” of 2010, and also among their “Top 25 to Watch” in 2005.
Her interdisciplinary credits include An Ode To, a performance work by Solange Knowles at the Guggenheim Museum; Tesseract, a 3D film by Charles Atlas with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener; and Isaac Mizrahi’s Peter and the Wolf, presented annually by Works & Process at the Guggenheim. She is also co-founder of Flight Festival of Contemporary Dance, launched in Ontario, Canada in 2021.
As an educator, Foote teaches Limón technique and repertory, as well as Dance Heginbotham repertory, across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. She has served on faculty or as a guest artist for the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive, Ballet Hispánico’s Elevate! Intensive, NYU Tisch Summer High School Program, New Orleans Ballet Association, and Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (CCDT).
Foote holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is certified in Pilates. A contributor to Dance Magazine, she has presented lectures at NYU Tisch, the German House in New York, and at international conferences including Il Corpo nel Suono, in Rome, and the Dance Studies Association.
