About Fresh Killed Theater and Carey McKinley Foster
photo by Sarah Waterworth
Fresh Killed Theater is a multi-media performance project that incorporates dance, theatre, installation, visual art and new media to create immersive dance theatre events.
Fresh Killed Theater presents performance events, guest artists, movie nights and workshops. Founded in 2009 by Carey Foster, FKT is based in her East Cambridge loft.
Carey McKinley Foster, M.F.A. is the Artist Director and Producer of Fresh Killed Theater. Her organizaional experience includes Company Manager and Director of Development of Snappy Dance Theater (2005-07), Co-Director of Royal Jelly Collective (1999-2003), Co-Producer of The Open Floor Project (1999-2003), and a dozen years of fundraising and program development work at various arts and higher education organizations, including developing the award-winning Harvard Green Campus Initiative from the ground up.
Carey's choreography has been presented at Harvard University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Earthdance, Bard College, Cambridge School of Weston, Walnut Hill School, Mass Audubon Visual Arts Center, Berwick Institute, Trinity College, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Mobius Artspace, Franklin School for the Performing Arts, DisneyWorld, The Dance Complex and Green Street Studios.
Carey has guest performed with Sara Rudner, David Parker, Bobby McFerrin, on WGBH’s Art Close Up, with American Repertory Theater, and appeared in Brian O’Donovan’s Christmas Celtic Sojourn. She toured nationally and internationally with Snappy Dance Theater, and regionally with Prometheus Dance, Sun Ho Kim, Nicola Hawkins, among others.
Carey has taught at Harvard University, Walnut Hill School, Boston University, Boston Ballet, at the American College Dance Festival, at local elementary schools and studios, and for MBAs at Babson College. She joined the Cambridge School of Weston dance faculty in 2007, and serves part of each year as Department Head. She is also a guest teacher/choreographer for the Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company.
She completed her M.F.A. in Performance Art - Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
More about her work: www.CareyWorks.com
