Kathleen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Dance Performance & Choreography where she teaches Critical Writing for Dance, Choreographic Process I and II, all levels of Contemporary Modern technique, Improvisation, and Dance Perspectives and Process. She also advises Senior Capstone projects. Kathleen served as Director of Spelman Dance Theatre and curator of the Studio Sessions Geffen Master Class series for 5 years. She began teaching at Spelman in 2008 and has been a full-time faculty member since 2016.
SDT presented Gallery Sessions at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts in conversation with Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness). Directed by Kathleen Wessel. Choreographer credit for this photo: Thulani Vereen
Meet Me on the Porch premiered at the homes of residents of Atlanta’s West End/West View community in November 2017. Choreography by Kathleen Wessel. Photo credit: Malika Deshon
Kathleen in conversation with students at the Spelman Dance Theater residency at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. This residency was supported by Colby College in collaboration with the Lunder Institute.
Still from “Roxanne Everlasting,” choreographed by Kathleen Wessel and senior Tai Livingston for Spelman Dance Theater’s Rituals of Resistance, 2022. Photo credit: Charles Canady Jr.
