Catherine Solaas
Post-Secondary Education
Master’s Degree, University of Oregon Department of Dance, 1996
Thesis: Nine narratives: An intermingling of collaboration and body narrative in a dance-making process
Thesis Advisor: Sherrie Barr
- Center for the Study of Women in Society research grant
- Who’s Who Among American Graduate School Students
- University of Oregon Student Body Representative to Graduate Council
- Outstanding Graduate Student, National Dance Association
- Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Oregon Department of Dance
- Graduate Teaching Fellow
Bachelor’s Degree, University of Oregon Department of Dance, 1993
- Minor degree in Mathematics
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student, National Dance Association
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student, University of Oregon Department of Dance
- President, Dance Oregon student organization
Teaching Experience
Professional Experience
Faculty Lead, Department Chair Academy, Austin Community College, 10/2023 - Current
Department Chair, Production Manager,and Professor Austin Community College, 08/2011 - Current
Board Member, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, 03/2016 - Current
Full Time Faculty, Halden Performing Arts High School (Norway), 08/2006 - 06/2011
National Administrator, Royal Academy of Dance, London, United Kingdom, 06/2005 - 06/2011
Practical teaching supervisor, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway, 02/2010 - 05/2010
Artistic Director, The Solaas Company 06/1999 - 12/2004
Produced, choreographed, and performed in various performance series and venues in the New York metropolitan area; collaborated with leaders for art, theater, literature and music to revive a run-down auditorium and establish the Victory Hall Cultural Center in 2001
Dance company member, Tiffany Mills Company, New York, New York, full time, 07/1997 - 12/1999
Created and performed new modern dance works, touring the US and Canada; taught master classes including modern technique and repertory while on tour
Graduate teaching fellow, University of Oregon Department of Dance, Eugene, Oregon, 01/1995 - 06/1996
Dance company member, Van Ummersen Dance Company, Eugene, Oregon, full time, 01/1993 - 06/1997
Created and performed new modern dance works, touring within the US; taught master classes including modern technique and repertory while on tour
Professional Publications
Excerpted List of Presented Work
It Sings a Song of Time, Dance Carousel, October, 2023
Strange Humors, ACC & Austin Dance Festival, May and July 2022
Way (Screendance), Austin Community College Faculty & Guest, March 2021
ToMAYto/ToMAHto, Open Door DanceTheatre and Austin Dance Festival, November 2019 and April 2020
Chasse (Screendance), 11:11 Eleven Dances in Eleven Months, July 2017
Coveted, Austin Dance Festival, April, 2015
The Sprint, Big Range Austin Dance Festival Dance Carousel, June, 2012
The Cabin, American College Dance Festival Association, Carnival Ah!, The Book and Dance Affair, March, April, & May, 2012
The lighter side of sport, Brygga Kultursal, Halden, Norway, April 2010
On broken heels, Haldens Klub, Halden, Norway, March 2010
Touch us, touch us and move on, Brygga Kultursal, Halden, Norway, April 2009
Welcome to paradise: A requiem, Kanonhallen, Oslo, Norway, September 2008
The teapot is behind you, Samfundet i Halden, Halden, Norway, April 2008
Little girl, Blackbox Theater, Halden, Norway October 2007
Raintree, Samfundet i Halden, Halden, Norway, April 2005
The sequent collection, University Settlement, New York, New York, April 2004
Girltalk, Sinatra Park, Hoboken, New Jersey, April 2004
Sequent, John Ryan Theater, Brooklyn, New York, September 2003
Published: December 04, 2024