Pat Catterson

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I’ve been a New York-based dancer and choreographer for 50 years. I’m working on dance 113 here in Boston. I married my wonderful Barbara you and a half ago and she lives here. I toured the world as a dancer and choreographic assistant with Yvonne Rainer for the last 21 years. I’ve been on the faculties at SarahLawrence College, UCLA, the Juilliard School, the Merce Cunningham Studio among many others. I I received multiple grants from the NEA, the CAPS program, the Harkness foundation and the Guggenheim foundation. I’m also received a Fulbright. My BA and psychology and philosophy is from Northwestern and my MFA in inter-disciplinary Arts is from Goddard College. I am 73 years old. Dance

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steven Garcia

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STEVEN “RTHYMZ” GARCIA Steven “Rthymz” Garcia was born on march 5, 1982 and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts. While attending High School Freshman year at Greater Lawrence Technical High he stumbled upon some b boys breaking in the hallway. This was the first time that he had encountered Urban Dance. He asked one of the b boys were exactly did they practice this dance and one of the b boys shouted “At THIS BIG GREEN BUILDING”. Curious Steven went to this big green building nicknamed obliviously (The Building) and started learning how to break dance. Around this time he was introduced to several dancers in his city but it was when he meet Alex “DenDe” Colon when everything changed dance wise. Alex told Steve about this place called “UTEC” in Lowell, Mass an after school youth program were they break dance and and also do “HOUSE DANCING”. Steven Had never heard … Continue reading →