Katy is the Artistic Director of Brecon Festival Ballet, a not-for-profit ballet company that was established in 2018 with the aim of bringing high quality classical ballet, accompanied by high quality live music, to audiences in Brecon. In its inaugural year, BFB presented five performances of Katy’s production of The Nutcracker, accompanied by the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, which sold out all performances and is booked to return to Theatr Brycheiniog as the annual Christmas ballet. Katy believes strongly in making high quality dance available to all and was proud to involve over two hundred people (onstage and behind the scenes) in the production. For more information please see the Brecon Festival Ballet website and Facebook page.
Katy has been involved in creating original choreography for many community productions at Theatr Brycheiniog (forty-three productions in total) in her home town of Brecon, including eleven pantomimes for the Westenders Amateur Dramatics Society, six musicals for Brecon High School and many other concerts and charity events. She has adapted well-known classical ballets for Mid Wales Dance Academy, where she is the senior ballet teacher, as well as choreographing for the MWDA students involved in three Strictly Come Dancing tours to Brecon. Katy also directed the children’s opera The Wonderful Ribbon at Sadlers Wells in 1994.
Other professional choreographic work:
Brecon Baroque Festival: Suite Meet (2009), Zwilling (2010, a collaboration with internationally renowned violinist Rachel Podger), Concerto (2011).