Catherine Cabeen and Company
Catherine Cabeen is a freelance choreographer and the artistic director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC), a project based, contemporary dance company dedicated to interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations. CCC was founded in 2009 as a forum for investigating both the creative processes and the 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 an intersection for ideas.
Cabeen is currently working on Into the Void, an evening length work commissioned by On the Boards. For more information please visit the project blog:
Into the Void
You can find excerpts of new work by Catherine Cabeen and Company here.
Ich Bin Gleich Fertig 2009
Created in collaboration with Bo Choi and Paul Matthew Moore
Photos by Paulo Tavares and Tim Summers (top) James Fu (above)
Click here to see video of Ich Bin Gleich Fertig,
Cabeen’s choreography has been performed in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Taos, Bellingham, and Seattle. Cabeen has received choreographic commissions from On the Boards, Spectrum Dance Theater, the American College Dance Festival NW, Cabiri Performance Troupe, Arc Dance Company, Moving People Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater Company, Lehua Dance Company as well as the Cornish College and the University of Washington, dance and theater departments. In 2006 Cabeen was Assistant Choreographer to Bill T. Jones on the original production of Spring Awakening at the Atlantic Theater.
PRESS
“Catherine Cabeen may be the most striking dancer-choreographer to emerge on the local scene in the past year.”
- Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times arts writer 5/21/2010
“Beautiful and compelling… Cabeen’s work sums up the best of the Seattle Dance experience.”
- Alice Kaderlan, KUOW Seattle 7/1/2010
“Catherine Cabeen, Friday night's finalist, got the evening off to an extraordinary start with "Segments," which she both choreographed and performed. Still, this wasn't a solo. Every move she made was tied so closely into Kane Mathis' alternately percussion-harsh and string-lush live performance on the kora (a 21-string West African harp) that "Segments" was virtually a duet.
Along a stark strip of light, Cabeen progressed toward Mathis almost as if he had her by a string. When he rapped the body of his instrument, she was staccato-sharp in her response. When he strummed arpeggios, she undulated with the sound.
Beaten back, then lured forward again by the music, she made a slantwise progress across the stage that finally culminated in a meeting and a kind of emancipation too good to give away.”
- Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times arts writer 12/12/2009
“Friday’s victor was Catherine Cabeen for her solo “Segments,” performed to the live music of kora player Kane Mathis. Mostly staying within a broad diagonal shaft of light, Cabeen engaged the evocative sound of Mathis’ 22-stringed African harp at times internalizing the music in muted movements, or openly engaging it with her long-limbs and strong technique. In the most striking moment she approached Mathis and did a modified penché arabesque in which she pitched forward, head to the ground, one leg extended to the rafters, with her body’s line neatly referencing the long neck of the kora.
A former performer with the Martha Graham Company, and that of Bill. T Jones, Cabeen is a beautiful dancer…”
CCC is an associated artist with Shunpike and held under their 501c3 umbrella. You can make tax deductible donations to Catherine Cabeen and Company via the company's click and pledge page here: