

A Year of Healing, One Frame at a Time
An article by Catey Ott Thompson In October 2025, my company, Catey Ott Dance Collective, celebrated its 20th Anniversary with a weekend of performances. This show featured a variety of repertory pieces as well as a video montage with actual footage of me dancing over the past 20 years. Putting this production together was highly reflective for me and brought up visceral memories and emotions about my life at that time that each piece of choreography was made. It was imp
Statement of Solidarity
Catey Ott Dance Collective stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, and acknowledges the urgent need for community and global awareness as well as immediate change and action surrounding the support of the Black community and Artists of Color. CODC denounces any form of racism and injustice, and instead is committed and determined to moving forward to increase inclusion, visibility and celebration of Artists of Color.


ON DISPLAY with Heidi Latsky Dance
Catey and Natasha Posey participated in ON DISPLAY with Heidi Latsky Dance (NYC) on July 25th.
Summer 2020 Performances
Catey participated in Lake Arts Project 2020 and in MKE Dance Theatre Network's Exquisite Corpse Milwaukee Movers Edition video


Feature in Dance Teacher Magazine
Catey was featured in Dance Teacher Magazine about on-line teaching in Higher Ed. https://www.dance-teacher.com/what-we-learned-in-the-fi...
CODC's 2017 Reflections and Events!
In January, I performed my Joan of Arc solo at Danceworks Dance Lab's Get It Out There. In March, CODC perforrmed at the Maryland Ave...


Catey Ott Interviews with Dance Teacher Magazine
Catey Ott Thompson was interviewed in Dance Teacher Magazine's September 2017 issue for the article "7 Self-Care Strategies to Protech...








