About us

Catherine Gallant, performer, choreographer and teacher, has been making dances over the last 40 years. Ms. Gallant’s work often explores themes of chance, doubt and the body as a source of comfort and torment. She taught dance at PS 89 in Manhattan from 1998 -2023 where she explores dance with children using an integrated approach to the arts. Catherine and her students appear in the PBS documentary, PS DANCE. Ms. Gallant served on the writing committee for the NYCDOE’s Blueprint for the Arts in DANCE and is on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and Hunter College. Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University. During the 1980’s Ms. Gallant was an apprentice with the Limon Co. and appeared in the work of Muna Tseng, Ze’eva Cohen and Anna Sokolow among many others. She is also a dance historian with a specialty in the art and technique of Isadora Duncan. In 1989 she co-founded Dances by Isadora (with Patricia Adams) which has performed for audiences around the world. Catherine performs throughout the US in Jerome Bel’s new work Isadora Duncan.

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Escape from the House of Mercy is an abstract choreographic rendering of sensations and images evoking the spirits of women whose lives were forever changed and diminished by the workhouses and laundries in the US and Ireland. Flesh and tears haunt the dreams and shattered hopes of escape. The ghost-filled air surrounds the dancers as they wrap themselves in transparent net fabric, both isolating and protective, from the forces at work against them. We now invite audiences to wonder and reflect upon why these places from the past are important now and how history connects us to the present condition of womens rights around the globe.

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