BIOGRAPHY

Katy E. Cashin is a freelance choreographer in New York City creating works for White Horse Theater Company (WHTC) and The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB). Cashin’s WHTC productions include Tennessee William’s A Cavalier for Milady, Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela and WHTC Artistic Director Cyndy Marion’s world premiere, You Are Perfect which was selected for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival and restaged in Los Angeles, CA in 2018. Cashin has created ten original works for TTB including Rhapsody, Retour, Focus, Mainframe, Rebonds B. She created works for "First Look" presented by Brooklyn Ballet and South Georgia Ballet's FUSE: Boots & Ballet. 

Cashin received her BFA in dance performance and BA in history from Southern Methodist University where she performed soloist roles in masterworks by George Balanchine, Maurice Béjart, Arthur Mitchell, and Gerald Arpino. She trained with The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB) under the direction of Joyce Fausone as well as under Christina Paolucci (New York Theatre Ballet), Sheila Humphreys (Royal Ballet), and Richard Sias (National Ballet of Canada). At TTB, Cashin performed several principal and soloist roles in full-length ballets such as The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Cinderella, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Beauty and the Beast. Cashin received her masters of public administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City. Cashin is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.

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