BIO: Casia Vengoechea, a native of Staten Island, New York, attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City. In 2008, she was named a Level I youngARTS Award winner in Modern Dance by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She has performed internationally, studying at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, performing repertory of Ballet Jazz de Montréal, and training with the Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. In 2009, Casia danced in an installation series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 2010 performed in the premiere of a piece by Luca Veggetti as part of the 2010 Works & Process Series at the Guggenheim Museum of Art. She has worked with Margie Gillis, Desmond Richardson, and Paul Lightfoot and has performed works by Alonzo King, Marie Chouinard, José Limón, Lightfoot León, Martha Graham, Jiří Kylián, and Crystal Pite, and was featured in the New York Times for her 2010 performance of Merce Cunningham’s “Summerspace.” She recently danced in the 2011 Greenwich Music Festival, and will be soon performing in the Deloitte Ignite Contemporary Arts Festival of the Royal Opera House in London. Casia will be entering her fourth and final year at The Juilliard School this fall.
"Casia Vengoechea is one of the first peers I met in high school as a freshman. What made her stand out to me was her unique physical gift. However, at the time she did not know how to go about using it. The summer before sophomore year, she went to Argentina, the homeland of her parents, and took class with Julio Bocca and came back a beast. Her improvement in just one summer, was night and day. Senior year, she had to make the most dramatic decision of a young dancer's life. After winning the YoungArts competition with Level 1, she had to choose between Harvard University and The Juilliard School. It was a choice between dancing or not. I am happy that she has chosen dance. I would say that she was born to dance. To me, she is a beautiful creature within movement. Now a much more mature dancer, she has grown into her body and is really starting to understand her qualities within. She inspires me with her presence as a close friend, and her presence on stage! She is currently a senior at Juilliard and I cannot wait to see her in this year's upcoming performances. I know that she will go on to be one of the most captivating dancers in the growing dance world."
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