Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator, dance artist, Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), Registered Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and a master teacher of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS). She is a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of Movement Analysts working together to promote the LBMS globally, and has taught and co-coordinated Movement Analysis Certification Programs in the US, Europe, Mexico and currently, China. She has co-authored (in collaboration with Dr. Amy LaViers and the Robotics, Automation and Dance (RAD) Lab), four papers on expressive robotic systems as well as a paper on motif (with LBMS colleagues) as a cross -cultural tool in movement education taught in translation. She was the founder and artistic director of Offspring Dance Company in New York City and the founder and head of the dance program at Drew University in Madison, NJ as well as assistant professor of dance at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC), where she developed the associate’s degree in dance, the only one of its kind in the Virginia Community College System.