Downtime with Cathy Marston

Cathy Marston is an award-winning choreographer, based in both Switzerland and the UK. Recent shows in the UK include The Cellist for The Royal Ballet, The Suit – initially created for Ballet Black, and Jane Eyre and Victoria for Northern Ballet. As we’ll hear she recently made Mrs Robinson for San Francisco Ballet and should now be working on Of Mice and Men for The Joffrey Ballet.

Cathy was Associate Artist at the Royal Opera House from 2002-2007 and Artistic Director of Bern Ballet from 2007 – 2013.

I joined Cathy on a sunny May 25th 2020 at her home in Switzerland. We chatted happily while, unbeknown to us, that very day terrible things were happening in America that would change the world for the worse for sure, though hopefully also for the better. Without knowing any of that, we had a privileged and fascinating conversation about the fall and rise of narrative ballet, approaching ballet through the theatre of character, emotion and story, and how stories reveal their imagery as we dig deeper into them.

See http://www.cathymarston.com