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Catherine Messina
Messina exhibited excellent control and technique, moving seamlessly through sustained balances, specific isolations, and explosive rolls to the floor.
-Review for Koresh Dance Festival
Messina currently dances and performs in new york city. here, she has worked with Yoshito sakuraba, yuki ishiguro, Open Dance Ensemble, Anna paterson, Fern katz, dawn schultz, animus movement, LEIGHANN KOWalsky, and emmy wildermuth as well as performing in her own work. She guested for a work by Jordan Ryder, and continues to guest for Kit modus. She recently performed for emma morris and patsy collins.
before this, she danced professionally in atlanta, ga for five years, further detailed below.
FILM WORK
katie has performed in music videos for vibe city entertainment (2020) and adnan basrai film and media (2017) and leighann kowalsky's mfa film work (2023).
katie has also performed professionally since 2015 in Atlanta with PATSY COLLINS, Jacquelyn Pritz, roxey ballet, dance truck atlantA, Alice Halter, Global Water dances, mediums atl, kristel tedesco, kikimora immersive theater, Foster and Co productions, and the opa imperial circus.
PERFORMANCE REEL
CATHERINE
MESSINA
Director of rogue wave
Founder of
Fall for Fall/Spring for Spring Dance Festival
RECENTLY:
gap junction
"Messina exhibits intelligence through movement choices that continually illuminate her theme. Her choreography is quirky and gestural, serving the choreographic objective while sparking curiosity."
-Cecly Placenti
Fall for Fall | Spring for Spring
"It was a reflection of the bold, cosmic energy that drives Messina. Through wit, engaging vocabulary and a devil-may-care attitude, the duet, like the afternoon, did something many are often afraid to do: let go of pretension, deliver levity and push the boulder of dance advocacy up a very steep hill."
-George Staib
Local artist Catherine “Katie” Messina bursts with bright, energetic creativity... Messina leaves the impression of being relaxed and comfortable in her own skin with a wisdom behind her voice and tone.
-Emma Bausback for dance atlanta
Creator of
Residency Program between New York and Atlanta
Director of Neighborhood Ballet Contemporary-Modern Program
Dancer for
Companies and artists across New York and Atlanta
​Katie is extraordinary in her ability to embody the nuances and details of each work. She is always in search of physical and psychological connections while bringing her own strengths to the forefront. She expresses the emotional textures of movement with amazing technical proficiency
-Lori Teague
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