Caty began her classical ballet training at age 3 with Marta Jackson School of Dance in Orange Park, Florida. From her beloved teacher Marta, Caty was trained in classical ballet with emphasis on Vaganova technique as well as Marta’s native Cuban influences. Through her childhood and adolescence at Marta Jackson’s School of Dance, Caty began studying more intensively with Marta in private lessons as well as being an aid to Marta modeling technique for other student’s lessons. While a student, Caty had the opportunity to dance in Marta’s productions of the Nutcracker (soldier, Polichinelle, party girl, and Clara), Giselle (peasant girl), and “The Dream” excerpt from the ballet Don Quixote (Amour). Caty has had the additional privilege of studying and taking class with dancers and teachers including: Alberto Alonso (Ballet Nacional de Cuba), Sonia Calero, Laura Alonso (daughter of Alicia Alonso), Irina Dvorovenko (retired American Ballet Theatre principal), Maxim Beloserkovsky (retired American Ballet Theatre principal). As a teenager, Caty also participated in the YAGP competition in 2002 and spent two summers with Orlando Ballet at their summer intensive program. Caty was invited after college by Marta to teach at her home studio, Marta Jackson School of Dance: beginning, intermediate, and advanced ballet until Marta’s passing in 2014. Caty’s first love has always been the art of ballet and she is thrilled to share her knowledge
and passion with all students.