Our Team
Meet the fabulously talented and fun teachers at Mountain Air Dance!
Artistic Director = Smile Creator, Flight Strategist & Guide to All Things Upside-Down :)
Cathy Werner is a gymnast turned modern dancer who loves to fly! She graduated from SWT State University in 2000 with a B.S. in Dance and then went on to complete the M.F.A. program in Choreography at the University of Colorado in 2003. Cathy has taught and performed with Frequent Flyers Productions, an innovative aerial dance company in Boulder, Colorado; as well as Wicked Sister Dance Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cathy founded Mountain Air Dance in 2009; Montana's first aerial dance company. Her classes, workshops and performances have thrilled Bozeman and surrounding communities ever since. Cathy continues to learn new styles and approaches to teaching, performing and choreographing wherever life takes her and has a love for sharing aerial arts with her community.
Through the melding of modern dance, gymnastics, yoga, pilates and aerial arts Cathy has created her own choreographic and teaching style that moves dancers through the vertical space on the stage and creates strong healthy dancers. She believes in the healthful benefits of dance and strives to pass her knowledge and love for the art on to future generations.
Cathy Werner is a gymnast turned modern dancer who loves to fly! She graduated from SWT State University in 2000 with a B.S. in Dance and then went on to complete the M.F.A. program in Choreography at the University of Colorado in 2003. Cathy has taught and performed with Frequent Flyers Productions, an innovative aerial dance company in Boulder, Colorado; as well as Wicked Sister Dance Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cathy founded Mountain Air Dance in 2009; Montana's first aerial dance company. Her classes, workshops and performances have thrilled Bozeman and surrounding communities ever since. Cathy continues to learn new styles and approaches to teaching, performing and choreographing wherever life takes her and has a love for sharing aerial arts with her community.
Through the melding of modern dance, gymnastics, yoga, pilates and aerial arts Cathy has created her own choreographic and teaching style that moves dancers through the vertical space on the stage and creates strong healthy dancers. She believes in the healthful benefits of dance and strives to pass her knowledge and love for the art on to future generations.
Aerial Instructor = Your Personal Inner Circus Star Trainer, Topsy-Turvy Facilitator & Aerial Inventor Extraordinaire!
Michael O'Reilly's passion for circus and aerial arts began very early in his life. He has been jumping, flipping, and flying since he was a young boy. At the age of 12, with the help of a crafty father, he rigged his own version of a trapeze bar above a trampoline in his backyard and there was no going back. He is a self-taught gymnast and acrobat with an early background in dance and various performance art forms.
Michael became serious about aerial arts in 2009 when Cathy Werner first founded Mountain Air Dance, and was her student for about a year before moving away. Since then, he has continued to focus his training and push himself to literal new heights as an aerialist with the help of various instructors and performers in Montana, Washington, and Arizona.
Michael is also a Montessori preschool teacher and greatly enjoys being able to share aerial arts with children who love to fly as much as he does! He is so grateful to be a part of the troupe at Mountain Air Dance and can't wait to help fellow flyers reach their highest potential. See you in the studio!
Michael O'Reilly's passion for circus and aerial arts began very early in his life. He has been jumping, flipping, and flying since he was a young boy. At the age of 12, with the help of a crafty father, he rigged his own version of a trapeze bar above a trampoline in his backyard and there was no going back. He is a self-taught gymnast and acrobat with an early background in dance and various performance art forms.
Michael became serious about aerial arts in 2009 when Cathy Werner first founded Mountain Air Dance, and was her student for about a year before moving away. Since then, he has continued to focus his training and push himself to literal new heights as an aerialist with the help of various instructors and performers in Montana, Washington, and Arizona.
Michael is also a Montessori preschool teacher and greatly enjoys being able to share aerial arts with children who love to fly as much as he does! He is so grateful to be a part of the troupe at Mountain Air Dance and can't wait to help fellow flyers reach their highest potential. See you in the studio!
More info coming soon about the rest of our amazing instructors!
Kat (Kit) Bentley
Katie Steward
Rebecca Stokes
Makayla Mallon
Kat Stephens
Blair Bodie
Hannah Boss
Kat (Kit) Bentley
Katie Steward
Rebecca Stokes
Makayla Mallon
Kat Stephens
Blair Bodie
Hannah Boss