Choreography

Kat Echevarría Richter is the Founder and former Artistic Director (2011-2024) of The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble. She has limited availability for workshops and choreography and currently teaches a variety of dance technique and theory courses at Stockton University including dance history, ethnochoreology, and tap technique. 

Writing for Broad Street Review, Camille Bacon-Smith named Richter to her "short list of favorite choreographers" and Lew Whittington of The Dance Journal noted her ability to "tell great stories in tap and step idioms, less reliant on tricks and traditions and more innovative tap artistry."

In 2018, Richter wrote, directed, and co-choreographed THE TAPCRACKER, an original, all-tap, all-women version of the holiday classic that is performed annually to sold out audiences at Philadelphia's Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Her choreography has been commissioned by Stockton University, Goucher College, and the Oxford University Dance Society, in addition to numerous studios.

​Richter's work has been supported by the Bartol Foundation, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her research has been published in numerous edited anthologies and peer reviewed journals and she has given papers at the annual meetings of the Dance Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, and the Society for Ethnomusicology.