Artistic Director. Choreographer. Educator. Movement Analyst. Performer.

CAT KAMRATH MONSON is a dance artist whose career has spanned throughout the states of California, Utah, and Wyoming. She has studied with noted faculty to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Modern Dance (University of Utah 2016) and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance with honors (Loyola Marymount University 2013). Cat is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (Integrated Movement Studies 2015) and a Registered Somatic Movement + Dance Educator (ISMETA 2017). She had a performing career in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City before she shifted her focus to choreography and teaching. 

Cat is the Artistic Director of project-based dance company, Cat + Fish Dances, in Salt Lake City. Cat + Fish Dances self-presents work and has participated in festivals throughout Utah + Nevada. Cat has a love for the art of teaching dance. She was a Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program Dance Specialist from 2016-2019 at Parkview Elementary in Salt Lake City. During her time as an adjunct professor at Weber State University, she led courses in dance technique, history, and theory as well as choreographing and serving as a senior thesis advisor. She has been a co-director for the Snowy Range Summer Dance Festival since 2019. Cat joined Utah Dance Education Organization’s Board as the Conference Co-Chair in 2022 and currently serves as the Higher Education Representation.

Her research with fellow CLMAs Halie Bahr and Nicole Perry studies psychological safety, dismantling perfectionism, and focusing on many ways of learning & doing in the Western concert dance classroom. As a collective, they have presented at the CAMP LBMS (Online, 2022), National Dance Education Organization Conference (Denver, 2023) and the Utah Dance Education Organization Conference (SLC, 2023)

Cat joined the teaching faculty of Integrated Movement Studies for their Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis certification program in 2019. She leads sessions in all areas of the LBMA system. In her current role as an Assistant Professor of Dance and the Dance Area Coordinator in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wyoming, she specializes in modern dance and jazz techniques, musical theatre dance, dance composition, somatic practices, dance history, and dance pedagogy. She serves as a teaching mentor to BFA in dance performance students and as a choreographic mentor on senior projects. Cat choreographs annually for department productions, ranging from musicals to new contemporary modern works to historical reconstructions. 

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