Kate Kamo McHugh
Kate Kamo McHugh is a dance and theatre artist from Kitchener, Ontario. Recent highlights include an artist residency at the National Arts Centre, presenting a solo piece at IMPACT 21 Theatre Festival, and performing with Cosmic Fishing Theatre. In 2021 Kate co-facilitated a movement-based workshop for the Newcomer Youth Program in partnership with MT Space and the YMCA. In the spring of 2022 she created a short dance film, PULSE, with directors Allen Kaeja and Olya Glotka. Pulse was created with Japanese Canadian artist Louise Noguchi as a reinterpretation and response to her film Searchers. Currently, Kate is working on her solo show Twenty Grains of Rice: Seeds of Reclamation, an exploration of her Japanese Canadian identity – cultural loss, retention and creation. She holds a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University in Theatre Performance Dance.
Instagram: @kate.k.mch
Artist statement
My name is Kate Kamo McHugh, and I am a dance and theatre artist from Kitchener, Ontario. My work centres around concepts such as migration, belonging and the intersection of art and caregiving - all themes I feel intimately connected to. I am interested in creating multidisciplinary works and especially keen on collaborating with other Nikkei artists.
Selected work
2 works-
Photo: Colin Boyd Shafer -
Photo: Colin Boyd Shafer
