Team
Cheryl Kaplan
Executive Director of CRDANCE Company.
Working collaboratively with Caterina Rago and the Company, Kaplan’s focus is to widen the reach of Rago’s choreography and its underlying connection to Italian history and culture to gain a diverse and loyal audience. Kaplan trained in Graham, Cunningham and Ailey techniques, and is the lead educator/teacher and founder of Mobile Studio Labwhere she teaches yoga, hiit, weight-bearing and dance-based exercise. Kaplan is the producer of independentfeature and short films for Eve Sussman, Rosanne Cash and Laurie Anderson included in major international museum collections, film festivals and theatrical releases. She appears in Alan Berliner’s Oscar nominated HBO film on Edwin Honig.
As Executive Producer for Aerospace engineer and artist Bradley Pitts, Kaplan worked with Pitts on zero gravity parabolic flight projects, collaborating with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center; for his Yearlight project, Kaplan gained museum distribution at MoMA, the Guggenheim and New Museum. Her writing appears in Art in America, Flash Art and BOMB. Kaplan is the author of a forthcoming book on contemporary art and is Executive Producer of an independent feature Film in development. Kaplan received fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy, MacDowell Foundation andRoyal Academy of Arts, London. On stage, Kaplan can be seen introducing CRDANCE performances at the Martha Graham Theater, City Center and Ailey Studios,and in 2024, at KNJ Peridance Theater for the World Premiere of Caterina Rago’s Alta Marea.
Annalisa Ferrante
TDM Project Coordinatoor.
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