Faculty

SUSAN CASH

Dpl. Comm. Arts (Seneca), BFA (York)
CMA (Laban Institute of Movement Studies NY)

Associate Professor: Modern dance
Department of Dance, York University

scash@yorku.ca

An alumna of the professional program of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre as well as York's Dance Department, Susan Cash is a dancer and choreographer who has been performing and presenting her own work for more than two decades on the alternative theatre circuit and in formal performance venues across Canada and the USA. She has been artist-in-residence at the University of Waterloo, where she received a Distinguished Teacher Award. As a certified movement analyst, she taught in the first ever Laban certification program in Canada, hosted by York University 2002-2004, and has applied her skills in this area at several medical clinics in Ontario.

Professor Cash teaches composition, repertoire, modern technique and improvisation at York. Since 2003, she has served as artistic and managing director of the York Dance Ensemble, a repertory company comprising advanced dancers in the Department of Dance.