Catherine Bennett

Associate Artist

Catherine is a performer, director, choreographer and film-maker who has worked with Volcano on A Few Little Drops , i-witness , What Am I Doing Here? and 1977 .

Trained at the Rambert School, Catherine was a performer with Matthew Hawkins' Fresh Dances from 1994 to 1996 and a core member of Random Dance Company from 1997 to 2002. As a freelance dance artist, she performed with Houston Grand Opera and English National Oper, and participated in the 2003 Jerwood Bank Project with the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. A Member of Walker Dance Park Music since 2003, Catherine is also engaged in performance and research work with Carol Brown Dances. She directed her first short film My Desert with Pedro Machado, and also made a film with Lucy Cash for Volcano's i-witness. She was recently awarded a unique Research, Training and Development Bursary from Arts Council England.