The Round Company Ltd
Mangement and Productions

Cathy Marston is an award-winning choreographer, artistic director and Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow. After education in Cambridge, she spent two years at the Royal Ballet School, before launching a successful international career now spanning over twenty-five years. She will become Director of Ballett Zurich, Switzerland, from August 2023.

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Marston’s great gift is to join artistic dots, creating form for stories, emotions and ideas. She inherited a passion for literature from her English-teacher parents; for her, stories inspire dance. As Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House (2002-2007), she created a critically acclaimed interpretation of Ibsen’s Ghosts, before the tempest…after the storm, and many other short works. During her six-year tenure directing the Bern Ballett, Switzerland, (2007-2013) she continued to develop her unique approach to narrative in works such as Juliet and Romeo and Ein Winternachtstraum . Since 2013, receiving commissions from companies all around the world, she continues to offer new perspectives to old narratives, for example in Mrs Robinson (her adaptation of Charles Webb’s The Graduate), Snowblind (inspired by Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome), Charlotte Bronté’s Jane Eyre, DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Likewise, she offers unusual perspectives in her biographically-inspired works, The Cellist, Victoria and Witch-hunt. Ever-more widely recognised for her distinctive style of dance-drama, she won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Dance Production for Victoria (Northern Ballet), the UK National Dance Award for The Cellist (The Royal Ballet), The Suit (Ballet Black) and has been short-listed for both the Olivier Awards and National Dance Awards for several other works including Jane Eyre and Victoria (Northern Ballet.) In 2020 the International Institute for Dance and Theatre awarded her their prize for Excellence in International Dance.

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Marston has also embraced the digital stage, capturing her works for the screen as well as creating work especially for the camera. The Cellist,  Victoria and other short works have been live streamed to cinema/TV and are available on DVD/digital platforms. Her specially created film works include Mrs Robinson (a short, location-shot adaptation of the full work for San Francisco Ballet), Bertha (Joffrey Ballet), Switchback (Ballet Unleashed) and Drift in which she performs herself.

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Marston’s portfolio includes creations and collaborations with The Royal Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Northern Ballet, English National Ballet, Cuban National Ballet, Danish Royal Ballet, Ballet Black, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and many more. In addition to commissioned works she has founded two project based companies in the UK – The Cathy Marston Project – and Switzerland – Compagnie La Ronde. From these structures she has self-produced, commissioned and toured several programs of work.

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"She has let the drama bleed through the dance.” Telegraph
“Quality is her byword… you could only smile at the perfection of it all.”  Sunday Express