Mission Statement

Cat + Fish Dances is a community of artists who strive to cultivate a space for artistic individuality and a collection of voices as a guide for collaboration and artistic research. In connecting to others and the world we seek to understand through movement, major themes of our work investigate the body in space, developing physical relationships, and social ideas of seeing and being seen.

About Cat + Fish Dances

Cat + Fish Dances is a project-based dance company located in Salt Lake City. Founded in 2014 under the direction of Cat Kamrath, Cat + Fish Dances has performed their works at the University of Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, the Rocky Mountain Choreography Festival, Red Rock Dance Festival, Dance in the Desert Festival, and Snowy Range Summer Dance Festival. Cat + Fish Dances is a RAW Artist for Salt Lake City. The company also produces their own concert every summer.

Why Fish?

During the creative process of Swims Our Blood, the dancers were on a break in rehearsal and decided to give each other “fish names.” These names represented a personality trait of theirs, a memorable moment that dancer had, etc. What originally started as a fun joke among the founding members of the company grew into a tradition with every member who has come through the company.

Paying it Forward

For every Cat + Fish Dances performance, we donate a percentage of our proceeds to a local organization that stands for the diversity of our company - BIPOC artists, LGBTQ+ artists, female artists, etc.

Your donation also helps to sustain Cat + Fish Dances. Too often, dancers + artists are asked to donate their time for a project. We are passionate about paying our company dancers for their rehearsal and performance time. Our hope is to continue to curate dance that promotes a sustainable + lively SLC artist community.

Land Acknowledgement

We want to acknowledge that our rehearsals and performances gather on sacred and stolen land from the Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Ute indigenous peoples. We acknowledge them as the past, present, and future stewards of this land and celebrate their enduring contributions that make our society much richer as a whole. -Written by Mar Undag