Catherine L.

Dance Instructor

Washington D.C

• Sometimes I use classical covers of pop songs in my ballet classes and give my students points if they can guess the song and artist. The winner gets bragging rights or an extra sticker if they're young.
• I created a 45 min comedy called Backstage where the audience got to see what goes on behind the scenes of a performance. I flipped the scenery where the audience's POV was backstage and when the performers left the stage, they were leaving to perform "onstage."
• I took 8 students to Youth American Grand Prix this past year (ballet competition), my first time, and I had such a blast doing it! I hope to find an opportunity to do it here in the DC area.

Catherine Liu began her training at the Conservatory Ballet in Virginia and earned a BFA in Dance Performance & Choreography and a minor in violin from Elon University. In the DC Area, Catherine has been a company member of Karen Reedy Dance, Sharna Fabiano Tango Company, and Sax Lounge Cabaret Dance Company, and a teacher at American Dance Institute, Center City Public Charter Schools, and Bowen McCauley Dance’s outreach program. In the San Francisco Bay Area, she danced with Mid to West Dance Collective and Garrett & Moulton Productions, and various individual choreographers. She founded her dance theater company, KWENTO, in 2015 and debuted three full length productions at PianoFight Theater in San Francisco. In Omaha, Catherine has performed in Omaha Dance Project and with Vox Dance Collective, Julian Adair, and the Omaha Chamber Orchestra, while teaching at Kitty Lee Dance, The Rose Theater's Outreach Program, Omaha Academy of Ballet, and The Studio Dundee. She is the content creator for her YouTube channel, KWENTO Dance.