What My Teacher Taught Me: Caterina Rago
October 7, 2016


For 12 years, Italian choreographer Caterina Rago studied Graham technique with Elsa Piperno at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome. Piperno taught her to be comfortable taking risks.

“She encouraged us to push beyond our limits to understand what our limits were. I remember her saying, ‘Even if you fall on the floor, you know the floor is not too far away from your body. Eventually you will fall and you will recover. No problem!'”

See Caterina Rago Dance Company perform Labir Into (“labyrinth”) at New York Live Arts tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 pm.

Photo courtesy of Rago

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