Catherine Cruise | Photo by Cathryn Farnsworth

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Cat Cruise is a dancer and choreographer originally from Brooklyn, NY. Her roots in dance derive from a passion for performance, leading her to begin training pre-professionally by age eight at Peridance Center in NYC. There, she established her preliminary technical foundations in ballet, modern, and contemporary. She furthered her modern and ballet focus in the dance program at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. In her senior year, she joined MOVE|NYC|’s Young Professionals Program to expand her contemporary performance experience, working with artists such as Maleek Washington and Tsai Tsi Hung. Her ambition and curiosity led her to pursue a BFA in Dance at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance.

Over the course of her time at USC Kaufman, she has been exposed to a plethora of new styles, which called for a revision of her artistic identity and goals. She began honing in on choreography, establishing a signature of storytelling with the catalysts of technique, athleticism, and theatricality. In her collegiate career, she has had the privilege of performing works by Kyle Abraham, JA Collective, Shahar Binyamini, Leila Ka, Dani Rowe, Bret Easterling, and Darrell Grand Moultrie. This wide variety of choreographic styles cultivated her newfound interest in the hybrid concert-commercial dance realm.

Post graduation, her goals are broad, ranging from company work, to choreographing music videos or films, to performing on Broadway! She aspires to attain a career of immense versatility.

Catherine Cruise | Photo by Lee Gumbs

Catherine Cruise | Photo by Lee Gumbs

Catherine Cruise | Photo by Cathryn Farnsworth

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