Kathy Rose

A universe of drawings in a nocturnal setting where loons cry & fireflies fleck the night air,,,,The masks fall...we are revealed.

1972 First animated film by Kathy Rose

Absurdist animation from Kathy Rose. A strange trip inside the mind.
1974

Miss Nose and her class engage in drawings in an absurdist animation.

A poetic vision of the self and the moon, carpeted with voices; a ritual of the mind.

In this video the viewer is taken to a surreal landscape of great beauty; a land of trees that subtly shifts into more hallucinogenic terrain… At the end, the dreamers dream, and the sleepers sleep...

Rendered with a Fifties avant-garde sensibility, The Ladies model, move, and transform, all to minimalist hand-made percussion.
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Created in 1978, this animation by Kathy Rose portrays her relationship with her creativity as represented by her characters. The film won First Prize, and Public Prize at the Ottawa Animation Fest...

Part Fantastic Voyage, part celebration of my younger self, this is a finely crafted jewel in which I am looking for those who are not immune to splendor.
Reality is both harsh and wondrous. I am t...

John Cadillac Band at JC Dobbs reunion. 8/23/15
With Greg Boyer, Ed Kamarauskas, Steve Nicely, Mark Brown, Bennett Sykes.

John Cadillac Band at JC Dobbs reunion. 8/23/15
With Greg Boyer, Ed Kamarauskas, Steve Nicely, Mark Brown, Bennett Sykes.

"Precious Metals". Choreographed and performed in 1991. Music by Walther Gieger.

"Cubistimenco"
A piece I choreographed and performed in 1992, with terrific music by Swiss composer Walther Gieger. I also designed the costume. I had totally forgetten about this dance. It was ...

Kathy Rose's contribution for "The Rite of Spring"  group collage for the Festival International Videodanse de Bourgogne

Music video for Greg Boyer's "No More Worry, No More Blue", a poetic ballad.

Excerpt from piece choreographed and performed by Kathy Rose in 1992 fusing flamenco with a Japanese aesthetic.

Excerpts from Rose's videos which have exhibited widely at The American Dance Festival, Dance on Camera, Budapest Autumn Festival, Ann Arbor, etc. Videos include "The Inn of Floating Imagery", "Lif...

S H E
length 4 min 24 sec
Performance, video, edit, costume Kathy Rose
Additional imagery of Chi Kit Tso.
Music C.P. Roth

An insectoid fantasy with an indio/arachnid sound track by C....

Inn of floating imagery
Video, performance, theramin and sound by Kathy Rose
Studio assistant - Thessia Machado

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create ...

Excerpts from animated films of Kathy Rose: includes "Pencil Booklings", "Mirror People", "Movers", "The Doodlers". Her films have received many awards including a Gold Hugo for MIRROR PEOPLE at th...

A more recent version of this piece, with an opening and ending in which I perform within dimensional floating liquids.
The piece is a non-narrative poetic choreographic fantasy with a figure movi...

A trailer of excerpts of live performances of Kathy Rose including "The Cathedral of emptiness", "Syncopations", "Oriental Interplay", "Kleopat'Ra".

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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.


William James

Leverkusener Jazztage 2008 (Ge...

LIVE PERFORMANCE
A live performance in which imagery of richly textured figures and delicate branches float eerily around the performer. The sound includes koto, voice and echoing drums.

Rain on the windshield of my car during a Pacific storm in mid June, 2005

live performance from bauhaus created by oskar schlemmer

2003. Performance, Sound by Kathy Rose




A surreal live performance event integrating 2 life-sized spectral puppet figures created with projected video and veils. The veils ...

"Queen of the Fluids" .Performance, Video, Animation, Costume, Edit - by Kathy Rose. Sound - Kathy Rose, Toshi Makihara.An experimental, non-narrative surrealist video. This video represents a cul...

Excerpt from video/Video, Performance, Edit by Kathy Rose
Sound - Toshi Makihara, Kathy Rose,Studio assistant - Thessia Machado
Through my form of "self puppetry", I am exploring the identity of ...

Excerpt from a live performance. SHE. 1993. l2 minutes. Film & Performance by Kathy Rose. Sound - C.P.Roth. An exotic trio fusing Indian culture with insect society. Dur-ing the work insect creat...

ORIENTAL INTERPLAY. 1991. Film & Performance by Kathy Rose. A fashion haiku in which projected animated imagery of hats, dresses and shapes drip and slide on the performers, creating living costum...

SYNCOPATIONS. 1987. Film & Performance by Kathy Rose. Sound-C.P.Roth. Live action film of seven dancers is integrated with the solo performer creating an almost holographic effect. The film image...