To contact Kimerer about speaking, teaching, performing, or participating in other projects, please email: kimerer@vitalartsmedia.com.

March 4, 2026, 4-6 PM, Mercy University, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Kimerer will host a showing of the CBC documentary, WHY WE DANCE.

February 7, 2026. Kimerer will be giving the keynote for the “Somatics in Play” on-line conference: “Playing with Nietzsche: Art as a catalyst for cultivating sensory awareness.”

December 6, 2025, 10:30-12, Columbia University, New York City, NY. Kimerer will be giving a paper on “The Play of the Text,” as part of a conference: “Ocean of Song & Dance: Emerging Currents in Tibetan & Himalayan Performance Studies.” International Affairs Building, 918.

November 29, 2025, 3 PM, Gardenworks, Salem, NY. The LaMothe Gee family returns for their annual concert, singing in the Christmas season!

November 23, 2025, 12:30-2:30 P, Boston, MA. Kimerer will be participating on a panel at the American Academy of Religion Conference: “A Discourse of Our Own?: on the merits (and demerits) of a cohesive vocabulary for embodiment in the study of religion,” Sheraton, Boston Common (fifth floor).

October 25, 2025. Kimerer recorded an Awakin Call interview with Pavi Mehta and Cynthia Li. Check out this LINK for audio and video recordings, a transcript, and a summary of key points. Awakin.org.

March 18-22, 2024. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Kimerer will be the Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Religion. For event information, visit HERE. As part of her residency, the documentary WHY WE DANCE will be screened at the Wexner Center for the Arts!

February 28- March 1, 2024. University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Kimerer will be participating in a three-day seminar exploring the legacy of Mark C. Taylor.

January 18-20, 2024, 7:30 PM. New York, NY. Kimerer is choreographing Off Brand Opera’s production of Jane Eyre at the Theatre of St Jean (150 E 76th Street) in NYC! The cast and creative team — including Kyra Lewis Gee — are fantastic!

November 25, 2023, 3 PM. The LaMothe Gee Family is back at Gardenworks Farm in Salem, NY — at a new time! Come hear us sing in the season.

April 27, 2023. Mexico City, Mexico. Kimerer will give a keynote speech at the International Colloquium on Dance and Transdisciplinary Studies hosted by the Universidad Iberoamericana.

November 26, 2022, 2 PM. Six members of the LaMothe Gee Family perform a Holiday Concert at Gardenworks! Check out this highlight reel: https://youtu.be/A3ATqqiL3xY

February 25, 2022, 9 PM. The documentary “Why We Dance” will air on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) show, The Nature of Things. This gorgeous episode, brought to life by filmmaker Nathalie Bibeau, features Kimerer and her philosophy! NOW AVAILABLE ON VIMEO and AMAZON PRIME.

October 27-28, 2021. Spelman College, Atlanta, GA. Kimerer will be a guest speaker in the Department of Philosophy.

August 21, 2021, 7 PM. Nietzsche! The Musical will make its first public appearance in a free reading at the Fort Salem Theater, Salem NY. More information at www.nietzschethemusical.com.

June 5, 2021. Salem Under the Stars. Come join us at a fundraiser concert at Gardenworks to support the Fort Salem Theater! Wine and cheese will be served!

COVID!

March 2, 2020. Kimerer will be in Neuendettelsau, Germany at the Augustana Theological Seminary, giving a keynote presentation on Nietzsche, Dance, and Philosophy for a conference on Religion and Dance!

November 8, 2019. Kimerer will be at Duke University, speaking about her work as part of the Ruby Fridays Arts lecture series! Click HERE.

July 4, 2019. Join the LaMothe Gee Family at the Fourth of July Parade in Salem NY! We will have our own float, and be singing songs from Happy If!

December 27-30, 2018. The LaMothe Gee Family is excited to announce five performances of Happy If Happy When at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, in New York City! For more information, please visit: happyifhappywhen.com.

September 5, 12, 19 2018. Happy If Happy When is delighted to appear in the Acorn Theatre, Theatre Row, as part of the NEW YORK NEW WORKS THEATRE FESTIVAL! 7 PM. For more information, please visit: happyifhappywhen.com

July 26, 27, 28, 2018. NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE of HAPPY IF HAPPY WHEN! We will be performing our original musical as part of the Tenth Annual Planet Connection Theatre Festivity, at The Clemente, on Suffern Street in the Lower East Side of New York, NY!

May 11, 2018. “Why We Dance: Kinetic Creativity and the Wisdom of Desire.” A lecture/performance given as part of the annual Creativity Conference hosted by the SUNY Upstate Medical School, Syracuse, NY.

April 2018. Celebrating the publication of the journal I edited on dance, religion, and the earth: Dancing on Earth! It is a special issue of the Journal of Dance Movement and Spiritualities. DMAS 4.2. WEBSITE

August – March, 2017-8. I am serving as a “thought partner” for Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers in their newest piece, The Faith Project/ The Door. kyld.org 

November 18, 2017. “A Poetic Approach to Feminist Philosophy of Religion and Dance: A Paper-Performance,” Feminist Theory and Religious Reflections, American Academy of Religion.

November 18, 2017. “Dancing Immanence,” Seminar on New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking, American Academy of Religion,

October 22, 2017. “Speaking the Words: Performing Dance Philosophy,” A Lecture-Demonstration, Society for Dance History Scholars.

July 21, 22, 23, 2017 HAPPY IF, HAPPY WHEN! World premiere at the Fort Salem Theater. I wrote the book, lyrics, and music for my first musical!! The musical — inspired by our family’s move to the farm in 2005 — will star the seven members of the LaMothe Gee Family! Don’t miss it!! For more information: Fort Salem Theater, Salem, New York.

Happy If, Happy When is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the ew York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.

December 2016. Just out! My article “The Art of Affirmation” in the Nietzsche Circle’s online journal — The Agonist. http://agonist.nietzschecircle.com/wp/

August 20, 2016. 7 PM. Manchester, VT. The Ever Unfolding Present! Join Geoffrey and Kimerer of a concert of original music and dance! Go to Eventbrite for more information.

June 12, 2016. 9-10 AM. Radio Interview with Thomas Toscano! On the site, select “Listening Shires” and then “June 12, 9-10 AM.” Play or download! http://www.wbtnam.us/imlogger/index.php

April 30, 2016. 7-10 PM. NYC. Talk/Dance as part of an evening event: “An Affirmation of Life: Friedrich Nietzsche, Isadora Duncan, and the Making of Modern Dance,” hosted by the Nietzsche Circle and the Isadora Duncan Foundation at the Isadora Duncan Foundation!

March 31- April 2, 2016. “Meet the Author” Event at the conference “Doing the Body,” University of Pittsburgh.  http://www.body.pitt.edu/conference-details

March 18 2016. Radio Interview with Nika Annon.  Kimerer LaMothe on 2016-01-09 at 09.05.mp3

October 20, 2015. Radio Interview with Michael Stone for his “Conversations.” https://soundcloud.com/michaelstoneconversations/kimerer-lamonthe-why-we-dance

October 6, 2015, 4 PM & 7 PM. Book Talk and Movement Workshop at Williams College. 

July 16, 2015. Guest post for the Dance, Somatics, and Spirituality website: http://www.dance-somatics-and-spiritualities.com/blog/why-we-dance

July 14, 2015. Guest post for the popular blog Life as a Modern Dancer. http://blog.lifeasamoderndancer.com/2015/07/reflections-from-the-author-of-why-we-dance-a-philosophy-of-bodily-becoming.html

June 22, week of. NPR stations. An 80-second reading from Why We Dance! http://www.authorscorner.org/

June 13, 2015. 3:30 PM. Griffin Hall. Alumni Book Reading at Williams College.

May 31, 2015. 9 AM. Radio Interview with Thomas Lawrence Toscano, Bennington, VT. http://www.gvpo.org/LS-53115_9.mp3

May 16, 2015, 6 – 7 PM. Book Event for Why We Dance. Northshire Books, Manchester, VT.

May 15, 2015: A wonderful podcast interview with the insightful Joanna Harcourt Smith!! http://www.futureprimitive.org/2015/05/born-to-move/

April 16, 2015, 6 – 9 PM. Book Reading & Conversation for Why We Dance. Hosted by Sarah Teale and Gordon Chaplin, NYC, NY. 

April 10, 2015: The Page 99 Test: Why We Dance

March 26, 2015: Author Interview, Columbia University Press Blog

March 21, 2015. Radio Show with Thomas Lawrence Toscano:
Part 1: the last 7 minutes 
Part 2: the first 13 minutes

For full list of LaMothe/Gee Family events, see:  Vital Arts Calendar