Pat Catterson

BA, Northwestern University. MFA, Goddard College. A dedicated educator and choreographer of 103 works, her writing has been published in Ballet Review, JOPERD, Attitude Magazine, and Dance Research Journal. She first performed Yvonne Rainer’s work in 1969 and, since 1999, has been Rainer's dancer, rehearsal assistant, and custodian of her early works. Recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright, and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the CAPS Program, the Harkness Foundation, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She has been  on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, University of California-Los Angeles, Juilliard School, Princeton University, Muhlenberg College, Barnard College, Merce Cunningham Studio, and Marymount Manhattan College.