Pat Catterson (USA), Choreographer
Pat Catterson’s parents were a ballroom dancing team and her paternal grandfather a Vaudevillian tap dancer. A NYC based artist, she has choreographed 110 works, receiving many accolades including a 2011 Solomon R. Guggenheim Choreography Fellowship and multiple Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the CAPS Grants and the Harkness Foundation, as well as a Fulbright Commission. She has been on the faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, UCLA, the Juilliard School, and the Merce Cunningham Studio, among many others. For twenty years she taught her own tap classes in NYC and has been a guest artist many places, most recently at the Kalamata Dance Festival in Greece and at Centre national de danse contemporaine in Angers France. Her writing has been published in Ballet Review, JOPERD, Attitude Magazine, Dance Magazine Online, the Getty Iris, and the Dance Research Journal. She earned her BA in psychology and philosophy from Northwestern University and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She first performed Yvonne Rainer’s work in 1969 and since 1999 has worked as her dancer and rehearsal assistant, touring nationally and internationally. A custodian of Rainer’s early works, she has staged them on many individual dancers and companies worldwide.
Stav Bar-Nahum Frank (Israel), Dancer
Stav Bar-Nahum Frank is a dance artist, choreographer and modern dance teacher. She has a Bachelor of Education in Dance from Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Dance training program Maslool Bikurey Ha’itim, were she performed pieces by Angelin Preljocaj, Matz Ek, Idan Sharabi, and Barak Marshall in addition to performing Ronit Ziv’s Rose Can’t Wait at Boydem Festival 2012 and Micheal Getman’s Fire Bird with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Her latest piece Let’s Play Girl, created in collaboration with Michal Ingber, was performed in The Steiner 2017, Tel-Aviv. Stav also created The Spider and the Butterfly in collaboration with multidisciplinary artist Noa Becker at the International Puppet Festival 2016 under the direction of the Train Theatre, Jerusalem. The piece is performed on a regular basis throughout Israel. As a dancer, she has participated in many performances, including Between Two Walls, Hamsa Hamsa Hamsa, and Blooming Dusk by Ma’ayan Liebman-Sharon and Vitrine and A Lady and a Bench by Kelly Ayache. As a modern dance teacher, she educates young children from the ages of 5 to 18, and she also teaches repertory workshops around Israel.
Ty Boomershine (USA), Dancer
Ty Boomershine, born in the USA in 1968, studied dance at the Fort Hayes School for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio, completing his studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Magna cum Laude at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Ty danced in New York with Dan Wagoner, Lucinda Childs, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane, DANCENOISE, Merce Cunningham repertory ensemble, Gus Solomons and Ton Simons. In Amsterdam with Leine & Roebana, Giulia Mureddu, Nicole Beutler, Robyn Orlin and Emio Greco| PC. In Dublin with John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theater, and in Berlin with the DanceOnEnsemble where he performed the works of Deborah Hay, Beth Gill, Rabih Mroué, Kat Válastur and Jan Martens. He was a featured performer in the Robert Wilson/Phillip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach as well as rehearsal director for the choreography of Lucinda Childs for whom he is artistic assistant and stager.
Dimitrios Mytilinaios (Greece), Dancer
Dimitrios Mytilinaios was born and raised in Athens Greece. After graduating from the State School of Dance (2012-2015) in Athens at the age of 23 he started a one-year internship at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (2015-2016). The next year- with a scholarship of Onassis Foundation- he pursued his studies in Master exerce, a two year master program on research in choreography and representation at ICI-CCN Montpelier which he will finish the following summer. Besides developing and staging his own choreographic work, he has performed for Anastasia Valsamaki, Maria Gorgia, Jurij Konjar, Inaki Azpillaga, and Romeo Castellucci among others.
Mary Kate Sheehan (USA), Dancer
Mary Kate Sheehan is a New York City-based modern and contemporary dance artist. She holds a B. A. in Performing Arts with an Emphasis in Dance from St. Mary’s College of California. Her credits include dancing with KEIGWIN + COMPANY and Seán Curran Company at theaters including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and New York City Center. She also performs with Tyler Gilstrap (TunanuT), Marlena Wolfe (the Wolfe project), Darrah Carr Dance, and Julia Ehrstrand Dance. She was a lead dancer in Seán Curran’s Bessie Award-nominated Dingle Diwali, and she is a world-champion Irish step dancer. Mary Kate is an accomplished rehearsal director and teacher in the New York City area as well as internationally. She teaches at STEPS on Broadway and Peridance Capezio Center in New York City, and she has taught and set choreography in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and South Africa in professional, pre-professional, and outreach settings.
