CADI McCarthy is a company dancer, independent artist, choreographer, artistic director and educator. Since 1996 she has traversed Australia, performing all these roles across a range of dance companies and organisations. But a move to Newcastle from Perth in 2014, where she had spent four years as artistic director of the youth company, Buzz Dance Theatre, led her to found a new organisation – Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub. Coming from Perth’s vibrant contemporary dance sector, she could see that Newcastle seemed to have many highly regarded dance schools and training institutions but little in the way of professional dance or
