Katie Nicole Harmon (she/her/hers) is the Principal Dancer, Program Manager and Creative Specialist at Aerial Dance Chicago. In addition to her work as a teaching artist at  ADC, she is an independent filmmaker, choreographer, and instructor. Katie is also the Founder and CEO of Harmon Stress Solutions, a framework through which she shares the healing power of flexibility and mindfulness via seminars and online classes. Originally from small town Rutherfordton, NC, her early dance training took place against a backdrop of Blue Ridge Mountains, creating a deep reverence for the natural world that pervades Harmon’s body of work. Graduating Summa Cum Laude, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance, Choreography, and Theory at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2018.

Katie explores contemporary ballet movement vocabularies through aerial arts, contortion practices, digital mediums, and improvisation. Harmon’s work is centered on the synthesis of art forms and the creation of atmosphere, with strong influences from nature, environmentalism, and science. While she has presented staged choreography throughout the East Coast and abroad, she also creates multimedia video collages to explore the relationship between the physical/animal body and the digital/virtual realm. Harmon’s film work has been screened and televised in 13 countries.