The recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, Kate Foley has created commissioned works for the Off Center Ballet (Christopher d'Amboise, artistic director), The Carlisle Project and the Lone Star Ballet. She has received commissions for her company from Circuit Network, The Bay Area Fund for Dance Commissioning Project and NewArt Connections. She has choreographed 13 works for the stage, including four multi-media collaborations. A guest choreographer at Barnard College and Texas State University, and she has also taught master classes at the New Performance Gallery and Footwork Studio in San Francisco, and at Moming Dance and Art Center in Chicago. At the San Francisco Dance Center/Lines Dance Company she teaches yoga for professional dancers and has led "Left Field", a workshop for emerging choreographers.

Kate Foley has been dancing for 25 years. In addition to dancing with her own group and touring as a soloist she has been a member of the Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble, Neta Pulvermacher & Dancers, Liss Fain Dance, Bill Coleman and His North American Experience and Crash, Burn and Die Dance Company. A native of Washington state, her career began with BalleTacoma, a National Association of Regional Ballet member company. In 1988 and 1991 she brought her company there as artists-in-residence, supported by grants from the Tacoma Arts Commission, BalleTacoma, National Endowment for the Arts, and other local community groups.

Ms. Foley is the producer of house of dance , a bi-monthly public access cable television show on TCI Cable in San Francisco featuring the work of local and national choreographers. In spring 1997 she produced, directed and edited 5 original works for video commissioned from local choreographers with funding from the San Francisco Arts Commission. She was one of 8 fellows chosen to participate in the Training Project For Video Documentation of Dance, a collaborative project of Theater Artaud/Bay Area Video Coalition/San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum/World Arts West funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

She founded the non-profit organization House of Dance, Inc., with New York choreographer Neta Pulvermacher in 1991 to promote the development and growth of dance in its various forms. Her work in film and video began in 1980 at California Institute of the Arts, where she worked with Ed Emshwiller, Donald Byrd and Rea Tajiri. Ms. Foley holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from CalArts.