Internationally renowned choreographer Cathy Marston holds both British and Swiss citizenship. She will be the Ballett Zürich’s new director starting in August 2023. She received her dance training in Cambridge and at The Royal Ballet School in London. Between 1994 and 1999 she danced with the Ballett Zürich, the Lucerne Theatre Ballet and the Konzert Theater Bern. From 2002 to 2006 she was Associate Artist at the Royal Opera House in London and from 2007 to 2013 Ballet Director at the Konzert Theater Bern. Cathy Marston has been a highly sought-after freelance choreographer for many years, and she has appeared with numerous renowned international companies and institutions. She has created works for The Royal Ballet, Danish Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Ballet Black, Cuban National Ballet, Opera Australia and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. In recent years she has worked increasingly in the United States, including works for San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet Chicago. In her choreographic works, she brings great literary texts to life in dance, engaging with important historical figures in unusual and original ways. She has enjoyed great success with her ballet adaptations of Mrs Robinson (based on Charles Webb’s novel The Graduate), Snowblind (based on Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome), Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Unusual perspectives also inform her biographically inspired works The Cellist, Victoria and Hexenhatz. Cathy Marston has received numerous awards for her choreographic work, including a South Bank Sky Arts Award and the UK National Dance Award. In 2020, the International Institute for Dance and Theatre awarded her their prize for Excellence in International Dance.