Catherine Galasso is an independent choreographer and director based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being presented by venues such as Danspace Project, La MaMa, SFMoMA, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Kohler Arts Center, Galasso also creates original contemporary dance works for underground bank vaults, dilapidated homes, and grand marble staircases. Galasso’s work has been supported by New York State Council on the Arts, LMCC, BAX, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Headlands Center, Kaatsbaan and ODC Theater in San Francisco, among others. Galasso’s Danspace-commissioned collaboration with choreographer Andy de Groat, “GET DANCING,” was nominated for a 2016 “Bessie.” She has received two San Francisco “Izzie” nominations, for her 2018 ODC Theater-commissioned “Alone Together,” described by the SF Chronicle as “a treasure chest so packed with jewels that the lid won’t stay down,” and for her 2011 “Bring On The Lumière!” about cinema inventors the Lumière brothers. Galasso was born in New York and raised in Italy. She attended a fine arts high school in Venice and received a BA in film from Cornell University. Her parents were part of Robert Wilson’s international theater troupe in the 1970s, and she grew up steeped in the avant-garde dance, theater and film collaborations of her father, composer Michael Galasso. Galasso’s choreography for opera and theater was featured most recently in productions at Bard SummerScape and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
