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Cathy Marston
Cathy studied dance in her hometown
of Cambridge before joining the Royal Ballet Upper School
in 1992. In 1994, she graduated to join the Zurich Ballet,
by which time she had won the Ursula Moreton Choreographic
Competition and had choreographed for the National Youth Dance
Company.
During her two years with the Zurich
Ballet, she danced a mixed repertoire of work by choreographers
such as Balanchine, Hans Van Manen, Ed Wubbe and others, but
also continued to choreograph in Switzerland and in the UK,
maintaining a connection with the Royal Ballet by creating
works for their Education Department.
In 1996,Cathy joined the Luzern Ballet
under the direction of Richard Wherlock. She was granted leave
to make three ballets in 1997, 1998 and 1999 for the Royal
Ballet’s Dance Bites Tour, one of which was later performed
in the company’s Sadler’s Wells season and on
tour in China. She spent one more year in Switzerland with
the Bern Ballet dancing work by Robert North, Stijn Celis,
David Parsons and others, before returning to London in the
summer of 2000 to begin a new chapter of her career as an
independent choreographer/dancer.
Cathy has since created six ballets
for the Royal Opera House’s Artist Development Initiative
with the Royal Ballet in Cohabitants, Outside In, the Constant
Lambert tribute as well as her own evening of work in the
Linbury Studio Theatre. She has fulfilled commissions for
the English National Ballet, Central Ballet, National Youth
Dance Company, Images of Dance, the Northern Youth Dance Company,
Dance East Ballet Scholars, a full-length narrative work for
the London Children’s Ballet and for an Anglo-Japanese
production of Amaterasu, The Sun Goddess which was performed
at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She was shortlisted for the
Jerwood Choreographic Awards in 2000.
She danced with the Henri Oguike Dance
Company from Aug 2000 - Dec 2001, for Liv Lorant’s Jerwood
Award project in 2002 and joined Arc Dance Company in Aug
2002 and was recently appointed the first Associate Artist
of The Royal Opera House.
www.cathymarston.com
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