Catherine Round

Background

About Catherine Round

Catherine has been teaching ballet in Los Angeles for over twenty years, including seven years teaching and staging productions for the prestigious Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. She has also graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Teacher Certification Program for all levels, beginning to professional. Catherine was Ballet Mistress for City Ballet of Los Angeles, Dance Mistress for LA Unbound, and has created choreography, along with celebrity coaching for Cloak & Dagger, Scary Movie V, Neighbors, and Germany’s Next Top Model. Catherine teaches ballet intensives and master classes nationwide and currently has her own thriving adult ballet instruction practice for all levels (beginner to professional). A ballet dancer and teacher for over 25 years, Catherine Round’s career started on scholarship with Barry and Anna Van Cura at Ballet Tennessee and Robert Barnett at the Atlanta Ballet. Catherine furthered her training under such greats as Marat Daukayev from the Kirov Ballet (now Mariinsky Ballet), Birute Barodicaite from the Ruth Page Foundation and Ricardo Bustamante, Ballet Master at San Francisco Ballet. Catherine went on to perform as a Corps de Ballet member with Ballet Omaha and as a Soloist with Aeolian Ballet Theatre in Los Angeles. Soloist roles include: The Tempest, Cinderella, La Bayadere, Romeo & Juliet and the Nutcracker. Corps de Ballet work includes Beauty and the Beast, Concerto Borocco and Les Sylphides. Catherine constantly strives to instill discipline, improve technique, hone artistic vision, and encourage the love of ballet in students of all ages.