Catherine Gallant, MFA was the assistant director at 92Y Harkness Dance Center from 1994-96 just as DEL was beginning and has been on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory since 2003. She has presented her work at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, WestFest and American Dance Guild. Recently Catherine Gallant/DANCE performed in Ireland and in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Catherine is also the director of Dances by Isadora which, since 1989, performs, teaches and collaborates with dancers throughout the world. They have appeared on the Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Series, Battery Dance Festival and at Green-Wood Cemetery. Catherine appears in the US version of Jerome Bel’s Isadora Duncan. She began her study of the technique of Isadora Duncan in 1982 with Julia Levien and is a founding member of the Duncan Archive. Catherine is the dance educator at PS 89 in Manhattan. She and her students were featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, PS DANCE! Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University.
