Decent Descent
Cassandra Cotta

“Sometimes I pretend I’m an anchor, because there’s a difference between sinking and drowning.” Decent Descent has evolved, over the course of 4 years, into a movement duet that deals with deaths, both little and big – Deaths of time, space, people, things and even parts of the self. Deaths that are bad, but deaths that might be good too. How do these departures change us and the way we relate to others? What does it actually mean to be strong and recover? Do we ever get to be truly vulnerable? What is it that keeps us going?

Decent Descent is performed and choreographed by Cassandra Cotta and Therese Ronco.

About Cassandra Cotta
Hailing from the small beach town of Point Pleasant, NJ, Cassandra Cotta began her dance training at the age of two out the Spring Lake School of Dance in Spring Lake, NJ. Upon graduating as salutatorian of her high school class, she attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where she graduated magna cum laude and received her B.F.A. in modern dance performance. She moved to NYC in 2012 and became certified as a Pilates instructor through Sal Anthony’s Movement Salon, where she currently teaches.

Cassandra has had the pleasure of working with many choreographers and companies over the years throughout both NYC and Philadelphia including Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, chrismastersdance, Bittersuite, Malcolm Low/Formal Structure, Zachary Denison, Pascal Roekert in collaboration with Veronica Brusa and Human Architecture. Currently, she performs with Kinesis Dance Theater Project and Erick Montes/Danceable Projects.

As a choreographer, her work has been presented in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia and North Carolina at venues such as Anita’s Way in Times Square, The Tank, The Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, Green Space, The Royal Theater NYC, Gibney Dance Center, and the Performance Garage in Philadelphia.

Artistically, Cassandra seeks opportunities that allow the world of dance to collide with the less practiced world of life in general.

For more information, Cassandra can be contacted at cottacassandra@gmail.com She can also be followed on Facebook and Instagram.