Catherine Cabeen

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Catherine Cabeen, MFA, RSMT, is an artist and teacher based in NYC. She is a former dancer with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company (BTJ/AZ), the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Richard Move’s MoveOpolis!, among others. She directed Hyphen, an interdisciplinary performance company from 2009-2019. In 2011, the New York Times called Hyphen, “highly kinetic, complex… visually exquisite,” and “beautifully performed.” As a choreographer, Cabeen has received commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle Art Museum, Gallery Galleon in Vieques PR, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Alsarab Dance Company in Byblos Lebanon, The American LGBTQ Museum, and The New York Historic Society, among others. Cabeen currently performs with Kristina Berger in an ever-evolving, two-woman comedy show, Glitter in the Gutter, and in her own solo work.

Cabeen is a repetiteur for BTJ/AZ and the estate of Joseph Gifford. She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Marymount Manhattan College where she teaches Graham technique, experiential anatomy, somatic practices, and a range of courses that explore 20th and 21st century dance history through the lens of race, gender, and social justice movements. Cabeen also teaches at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility through MMC’s prison education program. Cabeen has been on the faculties of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Cornish College, University of Washington, Middlebury College, University of Wyoming, Taiwan University of the Arts, and Yale. She is a certified yoga instructor, Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher.

Watch Catherine Cabeen’s Into the Void (2011) on OtB TV