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Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator and dance artist. She is a master teacher of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) and a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), having taught and co-coordinated movement analysis certification training programs in the US, Europe, Mexico, and China. Maguire is a Master Somatic Movement Educator (MSME) through the International Somatic and Movement Education Association (ISMETA) as well as a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of movement analysts working together to promote movement studies globally.
Cat 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 is the co-author with Dr. Amy LaViers of Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens (2023) published by MIT Press.
Cat 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 as 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 (The Articulate Body) designed to foster self-expression, body connectivity and transformation through movement at McGuffey Art Center, and the company advisor for Deep Water Moves Dance Company, in Charlottesville, VA.