CatherineMarie Devalos

Choreographer / guest artist

The Davalos Dance Company has been presented at various venues across the country since its inception in 1994. Recently the Davalos Dance Company created a partnership with the City of Panicale in Italy. They performed their site-specific work Oh the MOON! in July 2016, and returned in 2018 to perform and curate a dance festival for the region called Radical Acts of Love. The Davalos Dance Company has been presented at the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers and is a founding member of the organization. Davalos has also created work for the Latin Ballet of Virginia under the direction of Ana Ines King. Her full-evening work Volver received numerous grants including one from the National Endowment for the Arts.

CatherineMarie Davalos and the Davalos Dance Company have also been presented at various Bay Area venues and festivals including CounterPulse, ODC, the San Francisco International Arts Festival and Dance Mission for Women on the Way. They have been honored with the generous support of the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Faculty Development Office of Saint Mary’s College of California. Their work has been praised in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, DanceViewTimes.com, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. During the day, Professor Davalos is the Director of Dance at Saint Mary’s College of California which includes a traditional undergraduate program for young dancers, an undergraduate program for professional dancers known as LEAP, and a graduate division which offers an MFA in Dance: Creative Practice, and an MFA in Dance: Design and Production. She has served as a panel member for the Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grants, the Berkeley Civic Arts Grants, and the California Arts Council Impact Grants.