Kate Mattingly teaches Dance History, Understanding the Dance and Pilates at George Washington University and George Mason University. From 2006 to 2009 she lived in Austria and was the dramaturge for SommerSzene, an international festival of contemporary performance in Salzburg. Prior to moving to Europe, she spent ten years writing about dance and artists for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Dance Research Journal, Dance magazine, Pointe magazine, The Washington Post, and many other journals and publications. From 2000 to 2002 she was a member of the Nominating Committee for the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. In 2005 she was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC to serve on the Dance Panel determining funding for U.S. companies, choreographers, and schools. She completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance and Performance at TISCH/New York University and completed her undergraduate degree in Architecture: History and Theory at Princeton University.