ABOUT

Choreographer Catherine Galasso has been creating live performances at the intersection of dance, theater and installation since 2006. She has created over twenty original evening-length dance works for venues such as Danspace Project, La MaMa, SFMoMA, the River to River Festival, and the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, as well as alternative spaces such as underground bank vaults, grand marble staircases, and apple orchards.

​Galasso’s work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Headlands Center, Kaatsbaan and ODC Theater in San Francisco, among others. Her collaboration with choreographer Andy de Groat (GET DANCING) was nominated for a New York “Bessie” and her Alone Together was awarded a San Francisco "Izzie." Her Bring On The Lumière! about cinema pioneers the Lumière Brothers received a dedicated chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. The New York Times called her 2015 rendition of Jim Neu’s musical comedy The Floatones (with co-director Keith McDermott) “...very nearly unclassifiable and utterly delightful;” while her 2018 Alone Together was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “...a treasure chest so packed with jewels that the lid won’t stay down.”

Opera and theater credits include Le Prophete (Bard SummerScape 2024), Candide (Opera de Lyon 2022), Das Wunder der Heliane (Bard SummerScape 2019), and COLORS by the Italian theater troupe TPO (Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center 2019). Other recent activities include: 10,000 Steps, a commission from the ODC/Dance Company; a show about escape artist Harry Houdini (in development); and a collaboration with French playwright/director Tiphaine Raffier.

Galasso is the daughter of internationally acclaimed composer Michael Galasso. Born in NY and raised in Venice, Italy, she holds a European Baccalaureate in Painting, and a BA in Film from Cornell University. She lives in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn with her partner Sam and son Atlas.