Pooh Kaye has been making films and dances since 1975. She founded her company, Eccentric Motions, in 1983. It has since performed internationally everywhere from MoMa and Lincoln Center in New York to the Jerusalem Festival in Israel and Spiral Hall in Tokyo. Kaye has received six National Endowment dance fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship for dance, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. Additionally, Eccentric Motions, has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
As a filmmaker, Kaye has won prizes for and exhibited her stop‐motion films internationally. Her 2011 re-edited video version of her 1993 stop-motion film, The Painted Princess, won top prize at the 2011 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region exhibition. Her live-action, stop-motion film, Spring Cleaning, was exhibited at several art museums in upstate New York and was purchased by The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York.
