Kate Prince
{{short description|British choreographer and dancer}}
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| honorific_suffix = MBE
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| birth_date = {{bya|1974}}
| birth_place = Southampton, England
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| occupation = Choreographer
| known_for = Founder of London-based hip hop dance troupe ZooNation, Into the Hoods
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Katherine Jane Prince {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}} (born 1974) is a British choreographer, and the founder and director of ZooNation.Kate Prince in ZooNation Dance Company [http://www.zoonation.co.uk/page/kate-prince] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402140741/http://www.zoonation.co.uk/page/kate-prince|date=2 April 2015}} retrieved March 30, 2015
Early life
Career
In 2002, Prince founded the London-based dance company ZooNation, for whom she has created the works Into the Hoods and Some Like It Hip Hop. She is an associate artist at Sadler's Wells, London.{{cite news |last1=Barnett |first1=Laura |date=9 October 2012 |title=Kate Prince, choreographer – portrait of the artist |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/oct/09/kate-prince-choreographer-portrait |accessdate=10 January 2020 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120173331/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/oct/09/kate-prince-choreographer-portrait |url-status=live }} Prince has been nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer - in 2009 for Into the Hoods,{{Cite news|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2009/|title=Olivier Awards Winners 2009 -Official London Theatre|work=Olivier Awards|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-GB|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205001522/https://officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/winners/olivier-winners-2009/|url-status=live}} and in 2018 for Everybody's Talking About Jamie.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43668013|title=Olivier Awards 2018: Winners in full|date=2018-04-09|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-GB|archive-date=30 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930235126/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43668013|url-status=live}}
Prince was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to dance.{{London Gazette|issue=62666|supp=y|page=B20|date=8 June 2019}}
Original works (partial)
- Into the Hoods
- Some Like It Hip Hop
- Groove on Down the Road
- Mad Hatter's Tea Party
- Sylvia
- Message In A Bottle{{Cite web |title=Message In A Bottle - On tour - Sadler's Wells |url=https://www.sadlerswells.com/on-tour/current-productions/message-in-a-bottle/ |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=SadlersWells |language=en-GB}}
Music videos (partial)
- Utah Saints, "Something Good 08"
- The Saturdays, "Up"{{Cite web|url=https://www.sadlerswells.com/about-us/artists/associate-artists/kate-prince/|title=Kate Prince - Associate Artists - Sadler's Wells Theatre|website=www.sadlerswells.com|access-date=12 June 2019|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805104544/https://www.sadlerswells.com/about-us/artists/associate-artists/kate-prince/|url-status=live}}
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Category:English women choreographers
Category:People from Southampton