Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Cathy Gasiorowicz - Season 13, Episode 144

When Cathy was 15, she fell in love with dance and mime while
studying at the Children’s Theater School with Myron Johnson and
Wendy Lehr. She went on to dance with Zoe Sealy’s Minnesota Jazz
Dance Company where she met aspiring choreographer Ken Delap. As
an original member of Ken Delap’s Ozone Dance Company, Cathy
performed across the Midwest and in New York City at the American
Theater Laboratory.


Other performance highlights include playing the lead in Kenneth
Robbins’ production, “Accidently Exalted” at St. Paul’s Landmark
Center, numerous productions at Chanhassen Dinner Theaters,
Minnesota Opera, Kentucky Opera, and Minnesota Orchestra’s Summer
Pops Concerts, and live business theater events. Choreography
credits include Chanhassen Dinner Theater, Minnesota Opera,
Theatre Exchange, History Theater, Skylark Opera, Target
Corporation, as well as colleges and high schools.


As a mime, Cathy was an artist in residence through the Minnesota
State Arts Board’s Artists-in-Education Program, co-authored “The
Mime Alphabet Book” with her sister, Nina, and performed as a
Yoplait mime in New York and New Jersey.


Since 1996, she’s been working as a marketing writer for Twin
Cities-based creative agencies and corporate clients. She still
enjoys performing but now as a storyteller at The Moth, Minnesota
Fringe Festival, Patrick’s Cabaret, TEDx, Story Club, and Island
of Discarded Women podcast.