Catherine Maguire

Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator and dance artist. She is a master teacher of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System, a Certified Movement Analyst, and a Master Somatic Movement Educator, having taught and co-coordinated movement analysis training programs in the US, Europe, Mexico and China. She is a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of movement analysts working together to promote movement studies globally. She has co-authored four papers on expressive robotic systems and a paper on movement notation as a cross-cultural tool in movement education taught in translation. She was the founder and artistic director of Offspring Dance Company in New York City and the founder and head of the dance program at Drew University in Madison, NJ, as well assistant professor of dance at Piedmont Virginia Community College, where she developed the associate's degree program in dance. She lives in central Virginia where she teaches ongoing movement classes at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, VA.