CATHERINE ROUND CREATIVE DIRECTOR C. ROUND BALLET WORKS 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, beginner to professional. Catherine was Ballet Mistress for City Ballet of Los Angeles and Dance Mistress for LA Unbound. She 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, Yuri Grigoriev, Birute Barodicaite, Ricardo Bustamante, and Valerie Roche. Catherine went on to perform with Ballet Omaha and after relocating to Los Angeles, started working with Aeolian Ballet Theatre. Soloist roles include: Alice in Wonderland, The Tempest, Cinderella, La Bayadere, Romeo & Juliet and the Nutcracker. Corps de Ballet work includes Con Amore’, Concerto Barocco and Les Sylphides. Catherine constantly strives to improve technique, hone artistic vision, instill self-discipline, and encourage the love of ballet in students of all ages.