Pour Movement
Dance, Embodiment, and Spaces of Sanctuary
A place to be seen.
A place to soften.
A place to come home to your body.
Pour Movement exists to create spaces where beauty can hold both hope and lament in the same breath. Through dance and embodied practice, we explore what it means to live connected—to God, to self, and to one another.
This work is rooted in the belief that healing happens in safe, honest spaces—where nothing needs to be performed, and everything is allowed to be held.
Bio
Katie Summers is a choreographer, poet, performer, and educator based in Orange County, California. Her work lives at the intersection of dance, embodiment, and spirituality, exploring how movement can create spaces of connection, healing, and belonging.
She is the founder of Pour Movement, a creative initiative dedicated to cultivating spaces of sanctuary through dance and embodied practice. Her artistic work often weaves together contemporary movement and poetry, holding space for both hope and lament while inviting audiences into a deeper relationship with their bodies, one another, and God.
Katie is currently on faculty at the ABT William J. Gillespie School and teaches throughout the Orange County dance community. She received her MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach in 2023, where she also served as a Teaching Associate, and her BFA in Dance from University of California, Irvine in 2017.
Her additional training includes summers with American Dance Festival, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, New Dialect, and Northwest Dance Project. She was also awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program grant to study site-specific improvisation in Italy under the direction of Lisa Naugle, Ph.D.
Katie has performed with Redding City Dance Company and interned at Bethel Conservatory of the Arts. She completed her 450-hour Pilates teacher training through Studio du Corps under Ron Fletcher Master Teacher Diane Diefenderfer in 2019.
