MARCAT DANCE. Artistic home of multi-award winning Spanish choreographer MARIO BERMUDEZ GIL and American co-founder CATHERINE COURY. Since its establishment in 2016, the company has performed and taught at reputable venues and festivals in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including Festival Italica (Spain), Jacob’s Pillow (USA), Vanguard Body (China), Festival Prisma (Panama), and Inbal Teatro (Israel). Marcat Dance has an extended repertoire that includes three evening works, four mid-evening works, and eight short films that have received First Prize in Choreography from four different international choreography competitions including Certamen Internacional de Choreografia Burgos – Nueva York (2019), Festival Internacional de Danza Masdanza (2018), and Certamen Choreografico Distrito de Tetuan Madrid (2017); and received production awards from the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (2018) and the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition (2016). Marcat Dance has received generous support via creative residencies at ACASA Scenario Pubblico in Sicily (2020), The Croft Residency (2018), Centro de Danza Canal in Madrid, Spain (2017), Dancers Workshop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (2017) and ongoing support from Teatro Miguel Hernandez in Vilches, Jaen (2016-present). The Company regularly teaches at prestigious venues including Ballet Preljocaj in Aix-en-Provence, France; The National Dance Company of Wales, UK; Wee Dance Company in Gorlitz, Germany; and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, among others. In 2018, Marcat Dance launched the first University of Michigan study abroad program for the Department of Dance.