Catherine (Kayt) MacMaster

Kayt MacMaster is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and scholar. Born and raised in northeastern Michigan, she spent her early career in New York City dancing and training with artists such as K.J. Holmes, Janet Panetta, Johanna S. Meyer, Pat Catterson, Yoshiko Chuma, Nia Love, Julie Atlas Muz, Tuva Hildebrand, Molly Mingey, and Bread and Puppet Theater. Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, MARSH and The Space Station (St. Louis), Links Hall (Chicago), The Epic Center (Kalamazoo) and the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Medie, Ghana. MacMaster has worked collaboratively with Duende School of Ensemble Physical Theatre in Greece, OBRA Theater Company in France, and Saakumu Dance Troupe in Ghana, West Africa. She earned an MFA in Dance with a minor in Heritage Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she performed in works choreographed by Tere O’Connor, Cynthia Oliver, Sara Hook, and Rachel Rizzuto. MacMaster directs the dance program at Alma College and continues to develop and tour site-specific solo performances, choreograph works for student and professional dancers, and collaborate with many artists both nationally and internationally.