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Pat Catterson is most known for her work with Yvonne Rainer for whom she first performed in 1969 to 1971. When Rainer returned to choreography after her film career in 1999 Catterson returned to performing Rainer’s work until Catterson’s retirement from performing in 2018. This work took her on tour internationally and nationally as well as regular seasons in NYC

Of her final performance at MoMA Gia Kourlas wrote in the New York Times in her articles “The Kinetic Wisdom of Older Dancers”:

“The Judson collective, among other things, eschewed affectation and mannerism in performance, and for that reason Pat Catterson was an especially riveting sight. At 72, after 50 years dancing, she performed for the final time in a program of works by Yvonne Rainer at MoMA. Her grounded presence and lack of artificiality allowed movement to happen in such a direct, matter-of-fact way that it took on a sense of the ethereal.”

She has been designated as the primary transmitter of Rainer’s work, especially of her early work and, in this capacity has taught and staged Rainer’s work nationally and internationally.

Others for whom Catterson danced:

2015 Boris Charmatz “Twenty Dancers for the XX Century,” Tate Modern, London

2015 Jaye Rhee’s “The Perfect Moment,” a video installation

2013 Simon Leung’s “ACTIONS,” the Kitchen NYC

2013 Jaye Rhee’s “The Flesh and the Book,” a video installation

2011 Andrea Gise’s “Fight v. Flight,” part of “12 Solos,” NYC

2006 June Finch’s “Phoebe and the Pheasant,” Cape Cod MA

2000 Elizabeth Keen’s “It Keeps On,” NYC

1998 to 2004 Tina Croll and James Cunningham’s “From the Horse’s Mouth,” NYC and elsewhere

1976 James Cunningham’s Acme Dance Company, guest artist for national tour

1969 to 1971 projects by James Cunningham, NYC

1971 David Gordon as part of Grand Union performances, NYC

1968-1972 various projects by Ben Dolphin, Merel Poloway, Susan Brody, Claire Henry, and Sandra Jamrog, NYC

1966 to 1967 as an apprentice in Judith Scott Dance Company, Chicago