Kim Brooks Mata is a dance artist, choreographer, and filmmaker serving as Professor, General Faculty, and Dance Program Director in the Department of Drama. At UVA she teaches all levels of Modern, Composition, Screendance, and Somatic Practices & Research.

With an emphasis on somatic practices, Brooks Mata prioritizes embodied learning and collaborative creative processes to facilitate critical inquiry and enhance creativity. In her live choreography and screendance work, she is interested in the affect–the impact of, and response to, the embodied worlds we are creating on stage, in natural and built environments, and on screen(s). Her creative work focuses on questions that investigate notions of agency, a sense of place, and what it means to live and move in relationship. In her screendance work, she is interested in what she as a choreographer and dancer brings to the medium of film–namely an embodied, movement-centric, choreographic approach to camera operation and editing. Her screendance works have been screened as official selections in festivals in Scotland, England, Sweden, Italy, Finland, and across the US. Brooks Mata studied dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands, holds an MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Utah, and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA).