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Catie Leasca
Contemporary
Biography:
Catie Leasca is a dance artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. With roots in Massachusetts, she has traveled and danced abroad in Israel, France, Belgium, and Germany. Catie has worked professionally with Netta Yerushalmy, Helen Simoneau Danse, Jessie Young, Ambika Raina, MG+Artists, and Bryn Cohn + Artists. She was a dancer in Janessa Clark’s Bessie nominated piece, COMMUNION. Catie has been awarded choreographic residencies at Gibney Dance, New Dance Alliance and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She has shown her work at Movement Research through Judson Church, FAILSPACE at The Woods, Center for Performance Research, WIP IV at STUDIO4, among others. She has been commissioned by the Joffrey Ballet School and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Catie has assisted and co- taught for choreographer Netta Yerushalmy at Princeton University. Catie has participated as a dancer in residencies at The Yard (Martha's Vineyard), MANCC (Florida State University), LMCC (Governor's Island and Maiden Lane), New York City Center, NYU Center for Ballet, and Gallim Dance. Her writing can be found in Dancegeist Magazine. Catie is currently a Guest Faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College and an artist in residence at MOtiVE (Brooklyn, NY). She graduated with her B.F.A. in Dance from The University of the Arts.Class Description:
Class is composed of improvisation, phrase work, dialogue and community building. Movement is primarily based in a grounded, loose vocabulary that invites dancers to find containment and redirection in relationship to momentum. Phrases derive from a hybrid mentality, challenging the class to a clear execution inside intricate and quick-moving musicality. We build upon a commitment to understanding the body in relation to everything around it - a space to sift through and uncover. Catie aims to create an imaginative space where students feel liberated to take chances and risk failure in a protected classroom.