Caterina Rago is the Founding Artistic Director, Choreographer and Principal Dancer of CRDANCE. Born in San Lucido, Italy and now based in New York, Rago has received commissions from Steffi Nossen Dance Foundation, Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Ailey/Fordham University, Marymount Manhattan College and Peridance Center. She joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2009 after completing its Professional Training Program and remained with the company until 2012. Rago serves as a regisseur of Graham’s works, restaging repertory at universities throughout the United States and Europe. Her reconstructions include Panorama, 1935 for Accademia Nazionale di Danza at Rome’s Soirées Dans, Acts of Light: Ritual to the Sun,1981 and Dancing Movie Stars Festival in collaboration with Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium, as well as Karole Armitage’s American Dream for the Ravello Festival. Rago was named an Emerging Choreographer by MET Dance, Houston. As Choreographer and Principal Dancer for CRDANCE, Rago’s work has been performed at New York Live Arts, the Martha Graham Theater, KNJ Theater and Teatro de la Ciudad Francisco de Paula Toro in Mexico. Rago teaches Choreography and Dance in the USA and Europe in educational programs from TDM/Tecniche Di Danza Moderna and TEATRO CRDANCE to the Joffrey Ballet School and Peridance Center where she is on the faculty.