Fine and Performing Arts Department Chairperson, Iona College

An educator and advocate for aesthetic literacy, Catherine Mapp is an Associate Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Iona College where she founded the dance program and developed curricula in dance. As Chair, she further developed Fine and Performing Arts Department Minor Programs in dance, music, theatre and visual arts.

Professor Mapp is co-author of the initial document for the International Baccalaureate Organization's curricula in dance. Professor Mapp has been a movement consultant for various dance companies and productions and is the Director/Curator/Producer of the Iona Dance Ensemble.

As Director of the Iona Dance Ensemble, Professor Mapp has created over thirty–three choreographic works for performance on student artists in Iona's Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium and in related community venues.

Professor Mapp created the Art at Noon and Art after Noon Series of Performance Events at Iona College. She has produced numerous guest artists on these concerts includng dancers from the New York City Ballet, Merce Cunningham R.U.G.S Dancers, Martha Graham II Dancers, Peter Pucci Dancers, Jennifer Conley, Kuan Hui Chew, Kitty Lunn/ Infinity Dance, Catherine Tharin and dancers, Ze'eva Cohen, Claire Porter, Belinda McGuire, Jody Sperling, Amador/Oakes Dance Collective, Bill Young and Dancers, Max Pollak/Rumba Tap, Parul Shah Kathak Dance and Zvidance.

Catherine's career in dance performance and choreography includes featured solo performances as well as membership in many New York City based dance companies.

Professor Mapp's choreographic works have been presented Downtown/NYC Arts Festival at Gallery Henoch and Joyce Soho, 550 Broadway Festival, Irvington Town Hall Theatre, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, Carnegie Recital Hall, Dixon Place Theatre, Portland Performing Arts Center, the Riverside Arts Festival and the Universal Jazz Coalition Central Park Dances.

Professor Mapp holds a BA in Artistic Expression through Literature and Dance- Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of William and Mary and an MA in Arts in Education (Dance) from Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Mapp was honored with the Hugh J. McCabe Memorial Award for Social Justice and has been repeatedly selected for Who's Who in American Teachers. She is featured in the 2010 and 2011 editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women and Who's Who is the World.

She is a member of the following professional organizations –

• Congress on Research in Dance
• Dance Critics' Association
• Society of Dance History Scholars
• National Association of Schools of Dance
• World Dance Alliance

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