Bio
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, is a Dancer, Choreographer, and the Artistic Director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC). She has received choreographic commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, the American College Dance Festival NW, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Moving People Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater Company, Arc Dance Company, Lehua Dance Company, and the Cabiri, among others. Cabeen was a finalist in The A.W.A.R.D. Show! Seattle: 2009. During the summer of 2011, she was Emerging Choreographer at Bates Dance Festival. Cabeen has received support for her work from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4 Culture, and the National Performing Network Creation Fund. Cabeen founded CCC in 2009 to explore how interdisciplinary research and collaboration can be used to build new movement vocabularies.
Cabeen currently performs in her own work, and with Richard Move. She is a former member of the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1998-2005), and was Jones’ Assistant Choreographer on the original production of Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater. She is also a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Pearl Lang Dance Theater among others. In Seattle, Cabeen has performed in Paige Barnes Here/Now, numerous 12MM, OtB’s NWNW festival, Acorn Dance, the Chamber Dance Company, and as a guest artist with Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater.
Cabeen teaches nationally. Her CV includes contemporary dance technique and composition, 20th century dance history, and workshops based on movement and gender. Cabeen frequently teaches for the Bill T Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Education Outreach Department, and is also a certified yoga instructor.
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