about contact creative work publications teaching about Kim Brooks Mata is a dance artist, screendance maker, and educator currently serving as Associate Professor and Head and Artistic Director of the Dance Program in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia (UVA).
With an emphasis on somatic practices, Kim prioritizes embodied learning and collaborative creative processes to facilitate critical inquiry and enhance creativity. In her live choreography and screendance work, she is interested in the affect– the impact of, and response to, the embodied worlds we are building on stage, in natural and built environments, and on screen(s). Her creative work focuses on questions that investigate notions of agency, a sense of place, and what it means to live and move in relat
During her time at UVA, Kim has received various grants and awards among them a 4VA Arts Project grant and a Jefferson Trust award with engineering colleague Amy LaViers. She has been named a Mead Faculty Fellow, an inaugural Arts Fellow, and was a recipient of the inaugural Arts Endowment along with colleagues Mona Kasra (Digital Media Designer) and Kristina Warren (Composer). In April 2019, her collaborative work [I]nquiry II was re-cast, re-imagined, and re-staged with colleagues Mona Kasra and Leah Reid