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Company Mission
Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC) is a project-based, contemporary dance company dedicated to interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations. The company was founded in 2009 as a forum for investigating both the creative processes and artistic products that result when artists of different mediums collide. Anchored in the choreographic work of Catherine Cabeen, CCC creates dynamic performances that engage the body as the intersection for ideas.
Company History
Cabeen founded CCC in 2009, to explore how interdisciplinary research and collaboration can be used to build new movement vocabularies. Through CCC, Cabeen has engaged musicians, dancers, writers, fashion designers, sculptors, digital media artists, fiber artists, and scholars in collaborative creative processes, resulting in innovative new works.
CCC has shown work in New York, Dar es Salaam, Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Baltimore, Lewiston, Bellingham, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. The company currently tours nationally and internationally.
Cabeen’s 2011 evening-length work Into the Void was commissioned by On the Boards in Seattle, and was selected to be broadcast live around the world on its opening night, via Lowlives.net. Into the Void was also documented for On the Boards’ on-line performing arts library. The full work can be seen at ontheboards.tv.
Cabeen has received support for her work from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4 Culture, the Bernstein Foundation, and the National Performing Network Creation Fund. Cabeen was a finalist in The A.W.A.R.D. Show! Seattle: 2009 which has resulted in support from both the Joyce Theater and the Boeing Foundation.
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List of Collaborators
Below, artists who have worked with CCC, including: composers, dancers, fashion designers, lighting designers, visual artists, and writers.
Composers
Nat Evans
- All of the Above — 2012
Seattle Composer Nat Evans writes concert music for various mixed chamber ensembles, distinctive electro-acoustic music, and site-specific music events that fuse nature, community and subjectivity of experience.
His website is natevansmusic.com
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Julian Martlew
- Fire! — 2013
- Distances — 2010
- Composites — 2010
Julian Martlew is a composer, musician, and audio engineer, living in Seattle. He plays guitar, dobro, and lap steel. In addition to performing and composing for the Catherine Cabeen Company, he creates music under the pseudonym "Farfetcher", and mixes records regularly for Gravelvoice Studios.
Read his blog at farfetcher.blogspot.com
Listen to some tracks at reverbnation.com/farfetcher
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Kane Mathis
- Fire! — 2013
- 5 Windows — 2012
- Into the Void — 2011
- Chromatic Dispersion — 2010
- Distances — 2010
- The End of Dreams — 2010
- Segments — 2009
Kane Mathis has been studying the music of West Africa and the Middle East for the past 18 years. Beginning in 1996 Kane began making annual trips to The Gambia, West Africa to study the Kora with families of hereditary musicians. Kane has appeared on Gambian national television and radio and has performed throughout the country in traditional contexts. Kane also has studied the Oud at the I.T.U. Conservatory in Istanbul, Turkey and did a five and a half year apprenticeship with Oud Virtuoso Münir Nurettin Beken. Kane holds a diploma from the Tiramang traditional music school in The Gambia.
His website is kanemathis.com
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Paul Matthew Moore
- Ich Bin Gleich Fertig — 2009
Paul Matthew Moore loves making music and loves collaborating with others on art projects of all kinds. Past collaborators include: Catherine Cabeen, Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, Katie Duck, Mark Haim, Dayna Hanson, Rob Kitsos, Peter Kyle, Hengda Li, Tonya Lockyer, Wade Madsen, Christopher Pilafian, Amelia Reeber, Ellie Sandstrom, Maria Simpson, Jesse Smith, Hannah Wiley, Robinson Devor and Ward Serrill.
For more about paul visit paulmatthewmoore.com
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Michael Wall
- Ready, Aim… — 2012
Michael Wall began collaborating with dance and other art forms at an early age and continues to work with artists internationally. He has made work for the Jose Limon Company, Mark Haim, Lisa Race, John Evans, Lucky Kele, David Dorfman, David Grenke, Rudy Perez, Pam Pietro, Pat Mayer, K.J. Holmes, Paulette Sears, Julia Ritter, Randy James, Martha Tornay/East Village Dance Project, Jenn Nugent, Wally Wolfgruber, Heather McArdle, everything smaller, Incidents Physical Theater, Merge Dance and many others. Michael and designer, Jamie Karczewski, have formed the company ASIMPLESOUND, LLC that produces music and resources for dance, film and other media. Michael works full-time in the Department of Dance at Ohio State University and accompanies at the Bates Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival.
Contact: michael@asimplesound.com
His music and new recordings can be found at: asimplesound.com
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Dancers
Germaul Barnes
- CCC company member — 2010–2011
Barnes is Artistic Director of GERMAUL BARNES/VIEWSIC EXPRESSIONS DANCE, formed in 1993. The company has gained world renowned attention as one of the world’s vibrant emerging dance companies, performing across the U.S. and at major international festivals. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Barnes is a former member of the Bill T Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company, and the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater, among others.
His website is viewsicex.org
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Karena Birk
- CCC company member — 2010–present
Karena recieved her MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University with a focus on performance, notation, history, and pedagogy. Her early training was at the Cornish Preparatory Program, Richmond Ballet, and the University of Washington. She has danced professionally with the Colorado Ballet, Lehua Dance Theatre, ARC Dance, Redd Legg, and oaklanDrive Dance Company. She has been privileged to dance works of many choreographers, including Trisha Brown, Anna Sokolow, Antony Tudor, George Balanchine, Fanny Elssler, Wade Madsen, Deborah Wolf, and Hannah Wiley. She currently teaches modern and ballet at Bainbridge Dance Center, and has also taught at Cornish, Dance Fremont, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and The Ohio State University, among others.
Contact Karena via karenashg@gmail.com
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Echo Gustafson
- CCC company member — 2010–present
Echo Gustafson is a freelance performer, choreographer, and teacher. Gustafson has danced around the world with companies including Catherine Cabeen and Company, Martha Graham Dance Company and Pearl Lang Dance Theatre. She is a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer and has been teaching the Gyrotonic system since 1996. She teaches and practices Wild Goose Qigong as taught be Dr. Bingkun Hu. She is currently in the Professional Training Program for the Feldenkrais Method. As a performer and teacher, Gustafson cultivates balanced and functional technical expression informed by Gyrokinesis, Qigong and Feldenkrais principles. Teachers that have had a strong influence on Gustafson’s work include Jackie Sleight, Ron Brown, Susan Klien, Max Stone, Christine Dakin, Finus Jung, Simon Dow, Robert Moses, Gail Gilbert, Juliu Horvath, Dr. Bingkun Hu, and Dennis Leri. Echo has had the pleasure of knowing and working with Catherine Cabeen since 1995.
Visit her blog at echogustafson.tumblr.com
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Matthew Henley
- CCC company member — 2010–present
Matthew Henley holds a 2010 MFA in Dance from the University of Washington, a BFA in dance and a BA in religious studies from the University of Arizona, and is currently working on his PhD in educational philosophy at the UW. He has performed with Orts Theater of Dance, Funhouse Movement Theater, The Beth Braun Dance Partnership, Randy James Dance Works, and the Sean Curran Company.
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Sarah Lustbader
- CCC company member — 2009–present
Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sarah Lustbader earned her BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. There, she had the opportunity to dance for renowned artists including Robert Battle, Donald McKayle, Deborah Wolf, Michael Rioux, Timothy Lynch, and KT Niehoff. Sarah has been collaborating with Catherine Cabeen since 2006, and has had the pleasure of performing professionally throughout the U.S. with Catherine Cabeen and Company, as well as with artists such as Moving People Dance Theatre, Corrie Befort, and JD/Dansfolk. Sarah currently resides in Seattle, and is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® instructor.
Lustbader teaches at the Gyrotonic Movement Center, and at Velocity!.
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Ella Mahler
- CCC company member — 2010-present
A Pacific Northwest Native, Ella Mahler is a graduate of Western Washington University, with a BFA in Dance Performance/Choreography. Ella began working with Catherine Cabeen in 2009, and is also a member of Bellingham Repertory Dance and Kuntz and Company. She has had the pleasure of working with choreographers such as Josh Beamish, Monica Bill Barnes, Amelia Reeber, Deborah Wolf, and Andy Noble, among others. As an independent artist, Ella has presented and performed her own work in Bellingham, Seattle, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. Ella currently teaches at Northwest Ballet Academy in Bellingham and serves as the Development Director of Kuntz and Company. Through these experiences, Ella explores the many avenues in which dance can connect with different mediums, environments and communities.
Learn more about the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company at bhamrep.org
Visit the Kuntz and Company site at kuntzandcompany.org
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Fashion Designers
Michael Cepress
- Into the Void — 2011
- Chromatic Dispersions — 2010
- Eden Betwen the Lines — 2008
Michael Cepress holds a BA in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fibers from the University of Washington. An intense interest in the male wardrobe and tailoring traditions has led him to focus on the design and production of menswear, and write extensively on fashion’s relationship to gender and popular culture. Cepress lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
His website is michaelcepress.com
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Bo Choi
- Segments — 2009
- Ich Bin Gleich Fertig — 2009
Artist and designer, visit her website: www.boyoungchoi.com.ne.kr/
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Lighting Designers
Connie Yun
- Fire! — 2013
- Into the Void — 2011
- Segments — 2009
Connie Yun is a Lighting Designer for the Seattle Opera. Originally from East Lansing MI, her Seattle Opera Debut was Die Fledermaus in 2006. She has designed for numerous national and international opera houses, theaters and dance performances.
For more information, visit her page at seattleopera.org
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Lou Cabeen
- Earth/Pool — 2003
Lou Cabeen lives and works in Seattle where she balances her working life as an artist with her working life as an associate professor of art at the University of Washington. In both arenas she is a passionate advocate of the tactile joys of fiber and textiles, especially stitching. For the past several years she has been combining this passion with an equally avid attention to maps, map-making and the book arts. The sensuous surfaces of textiles are powerful metaphors for the tactility of the terrain we inhabit.
View more work at her website: loucabeen.com
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Susie Lee
- Fire! — 2013
Shortly after completing her Master of Fine Arts, SUSIE LEE was recognized by Seattle Weekly as the “2006 Emerging Artist of the Year” for the “intelligence, emotion and sensuality” of her video art. Following her first solo exhibition at Lawrimore Project in 2007, Lee was named “An Artist to Watch” by the national publication Artnews. Lee's work has been exhibited widely, from Miami to Los Angeles, at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, and internationally in Italy (Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno; and Artefiere Bologna, Bologna), and at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea. She was the winner of the 2010 Stranger Visual Art Genius Award. in 2011, as a recipient of the Northwest Contemporary Art Awards, her work was recently exhibited at the Portland Art Museum. She completed a full performance piece, "Swimming the List," with her ensemble in 2011. Her first museum solo exhibition, "Of Breath and Rain" will be presented at the Frye Art Museum in February, 2012. Lee is represented by Lawrimore Project, Seattle; Myers Contemporary, Baltimore; and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno.
Heather Raikes
- Immanent Interaction — 2003
Heather Raikes is a physical/media artist and researcher.
Her site is heatherraikes.com
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Tivon Rice
- Into the Void — 2011
Tivon Rice's work critically explores representation and communication in the context of digital technologies. Both fascinated with and wary of the speed of televisual media, Rice creates systems that pair immediate materials such as light, space, and tangible forms with live and recorded sound and video. With these installations, he engages spectators and participants with direct physical situations, as well as processes that unfold over longer durations. By activating one’s awareness of color, time and space Rice creates opportunities for dynamic, active viewing.
While his practice is primarily concerned with emerging social relationships to digital technology, Rice draws heavily from art historical themes. In doing so, he examines the conditions of surrealist and minimalist attitudes in contemporary new-media arts. This practice informs recent large-scale installations, as well as images and sculptures which incorporate the particular patterns, textures, and processes inherent in digital media.
Rice (b. 1978) is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington's Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media, and a 2011-12 Fulbright Scholar.
Susan Robb
- Into the Void — 2011
Susan Robb creates medium-spanning art that is an exploration of the inter-relatedness of people and place.
Paulo Tavares
- studio collaborations — 2007–present
Paulo T. is a professional, internationally published photographer. A self-taught, highly motivated individual, he has collaborated with renowned and award winning artists and also participates in youth performance arts education. Paulo T. captivates and stimulates the mind; his intuitive ability allows him to capture ‘the moment’; exhibiting energy and emotion at the height of release and expression. Paulo T. excels at dance, portrait, fashion, commercial, headshots, candid and performance photography.
Paulo T. Photography
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pauloTphoto@gmail.com
www.pauloTphotography.com
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Kumani Gantt
- The Gift — 2010
Read Ms. Gantt's bio on the Central District Forum website at cdforum.org
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