Cathy Marston

The internationally renowned choreographer Cathy Marston holds both British and Swiss citizenship. In August 2023, she became the new director of Ballet Zurich. She received her dance training in Cambridge and at the Royal Ballet School in London. Between 1994 and 1999 she danced with Ballet Zurich, the Ballet of the Lucerne Theatre, and at Konzert Theater Bern. From 2002 to 2006 she was Associate Artist at the Royal Opera House in London, and from 2007 to 2013 she served as director of ballet at Konzert Theater Bern. For many years she has worked with great success as a freelance choreographer and has been invited by numerous prestigious international companies and institutions. Her creations have been produced, among others, for the Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Ballet Black, the National Ballet of Cuba, as well as Opera Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. In recent years, she has increasingly worked in the United States, creating works for San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet Chicago. In her choreographic work, she brings major literary sources to life through dance and approaches significant historical figures in unusual and original ways. She celebrated great success with her ballet adaptations “Mrs. Robinson” (after Charles Webb’s novel “The Graduate”), “Snowblind” (after Edith Wharton’s novel “Ethan Frome”), Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” and John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Unconventional perspectives also shape her biographically inspired works “The Cellist,” “Victoria,” and “Hexenhatz.” For her choreographic achievements, Cathy Marston has received multiple awards, including a South Bank Sky Arts Award and the British National Dance Award. In 2020, the International Institute for Dance and Theatre presented her with a prize for excellence in international dance.