Photo by Taylor Craft
HEATHER KROE
Founder / Head Choreographer
Kroe began choreographing during her time at Marymount Manhattan College where she presented multiple works. After receiving her B.F.A in Dance, B.A. in Psychology and minor in art therapy, Kroe has presented her choreography at multiple venues including Triskelion Arts, DanceWave, and Centenary University among others. As she develops KROEMovement she intends to combine her interest in multidisciplinary art with intersections of culture and women’s health.
In 2023 Kroe’s research “Dance Movement Therapy Treatment for Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating” was published in “Exploring the Benefit of Creative Arts Therapies for Children, Adolescents, and Adults” curated by Dr. Nava Silton. Heather’s passion for the power of the creative art therapies continues to perpetuate her work and emphasize her ethos for KROEM: “Through researching the embodied feminine experience, we begin to uncover how functioning within patriarchal constructs —the participation and rejection of them— influence the performance sphere for participants and audiences alike.”
KROEM Mission
We all have stories to tell, and physicality doesn’t lie.
KROEMovement engages in movement as a conduit to interrogate constructs of our societal landscape through the lens of the embodied feminine experience. Via traditional concert dance performance, site specific encounters, and film, KROEM aims to influence the performance sphere for participants and audiences alike by expressing perspectives not only of humanity, but the organisms, energies, and powers among us.
KROEM Vision
A New York City based movement-centric collective of female-identifying artists established in 2024 by Heather Kroe.
KROEMovement engages in dance performance by actively interrogating the constructs of our current societal landscape. Through researching the embodied feminine experience, we begin to uncover how functioning within patriarchal constructs —the participation and rejection of them— influence the performance sphere for participants and audiences alike.
We are dedicated to perpetuating a culture of inclusion using empathetic lenses to produce work that expresses perspectives not only of humanity, but the organisms, energies, and powers among us. KROEM has shown work at Triskelion Arts, DanceWave, Centenary University among others.
KROEM aims to highlight the interdisciplinary landscape that is effectively moving the arts forward by celebrating our artists’ unique talents and skills that evolve from well-rounded individual experiences.
We believe art is the human experience, and to be an artist is much more than one craft.