Catherine Gallant (catdance)
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Catherine Gallant, dancer, choreographer and teacher, has been creating work over the last 25 years.. She has produced concerts in New York City at the Cunningham Studio, St. Marks Church, and the Ohio Theater. She has received funding for her choreography from the Harkness Foundation for Dance, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Trust, and NYFA . In the 1980’s Catherine appeared with the Jose Limon Co., Ze'eva Cohen and Dancers, Anna Sokolow, and Muna Tseng. Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University. Ms. Gallant has taught dance courses at the Boston Conservatory, Curry College, and MIT and was the Assistant Director of the 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance Center from 1994-96. Ms Gallant is also the director and co-founder of Dances by Isadora which has performed in Budapest, Toronto, Moscow, Tokyo, Paris and in NYC in collaboration with Christine Jowers at the World Financial Center’s Arts and Events series. Ms. Gallant has been the dance teacher at PS/IS 89 in TriBeCa since the school opened in 1998. Catherine explores dance with children in Pre-K through 8th grade using an integrated approach to the arts which includes the language of Laban Movement Analysis and explorations of dance across culture and history. Catherine also directs the PS 89 Dance Group which has performed at the Kids Cafe Festival, Taste of Dance Festival, WFC Wintergarden and at DTW's Family Matters series. Since 2005, PS 89 has worked with the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation on an arts integration project funded by NYSCA. Ms. Gallant served on the writing committee for the New York City Department of Education’s Blueprint for the Arts in DANCE. Ms. Gallant regularly conducts dance education workshops for the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center,NYCDOE, Manhattanville College, National Dance Educators Organization and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Ms. Gallant’s movement palette is influenced by her long association with dance history via Duncan, Dunham, Sokolow and Limon and her current work influencing the future of dance through teaching hundreds of children per week in NYC public school.

My Occupation:

teacher/facilitator

My Website:

www.catherinegallantdance.com and www.dancesbyisadora.com