Kathryn Posin (born March 23, 1943) is an American choreographer known for her musical and sculptural fusing of ballet and modern dance genres.
Her most recent season with The Kathryn Posin Dance Company commissioned by 92nd Street Y in February 2016 received an award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and an Arts Works Grant from the NEA in 2017.
She studied composition with Louis Horst, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham and Hanya Holm.
She was the first international choreographer to make a work for Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, in 1981.
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company founded 1973, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship 1979, a Jerome Robbins Award 1969, The Doris Humphrey Fellowship 1979, and a Bennington College Choreographer's Grant 1981 .The company was also awarded 14 NEA Fellowships and Company Grants from 1974 to 1987, Kathryn was awarded two Jewish Studies Grants from the Gallatin School of New York University in 2010 & 2011.