Kathleen Hermesdorf
Kathleen Hermesdorf is the Artistic Director of La ALTERNATIVA.  Her style has been called luscious, sensate and mercurial.  She has been a member of Bebe Miller & Company, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann.  She continues to participate in Mann’s company, and has worked in long-term collaboration with Scott Wells, Stephanie Maher and Kim Epifano, among others.  She has extensive and outstanding training in modern and post-modern dance modalities, release-based techniques, improvisation, contact improvisation, jazz, ballet, various martial arts and somatic investigations, and holds a BFA and MFA in Dance Performance & Pedagogy.  Hermesdorf has been dancing in the Bay Area since 1991 and has received significant support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, CHIME/MJDC and the San Francisco Arts Commission.