Cat Manturuk loves sunshine and rain and has no time to sit around and complain. She is the founder and artistic director of DANCE CAT-ALYST, a soul-driven contemporary dance company.

A native of Detroit, MI, she holds a BFA in Dance and BS in Exercise Science from Western Michigan University. After graduating, Cat was a scholarship student at Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Center in Chicago, later moving to LA, where she performed with LA Modern and Ballet Company, Blue13 Dance, Regina Klenjosky Dance Company, and Collage Dance Theatre.

Upon her arrival in New York, she joined Dance 2XS and became rehearsal director to Decadancetheatre. Her music video credits lie with BET and MTVIndia, and she has been featured in Dance Spirit, Shape, and Elle magazine. Her choreography has also been noted as “creating heat…” by the LA Times and teaching role as “crisply alive…” by the NY Times.

She has been fortunate to collaborate with Danita Shaheen in Dance Cat-alyst since 2008 and is thrilled to be included in her amazing company of Disagreeable Creatures.

www.dancecat-alyst.net

IG: @CatManturuk and @DanceCat_alyst.SpecialAgentC