Graduate Student
Cate Greyjoy is a dance history scholar and ballet educator, currently working as a PhD Candidate in UC Santa Barbara’s Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies program. A long-time dancer, Myz Greyjoy trained in California and with the Boston Ballet School, and performed professionally in California, New York, and Oregon. Myz Greyjoy earned their Master’s of Fine Arts in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a Bachelor’s degree in Ancient Greek & Roman Studies (with a minor in Dance Performance Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley.
Myz Greyjoy has taught at numerous dance schools and universities across the country, including: Sultanov Russian Ballet Academy, The Portland Ballet, Portland Dance Center, Santa Barbara Festival Ballet, New York University, and UC Santa Barbara. Alongside pedagogical pursuits, Myz Greyjoy has given guest lectures at New York University and Dixie State University in subjects ranging from classical technique to anatomy and kinesiology for dancers.
From 2020 to 2022, Myz Greyjoy served as Artistic Director of Ballet Western Reserve in Youngstown, Ohio. In 2022, Myz Greyjoy was invited to join the adjunct dance faculty at Youngstown State University, where they taught dance pedagogy. Following tenure as artistic director and adjunct professor, Myz Greyjoy published a Barre-fitness instruction manual in collaboration with Ohio-based yoga company, Studio Oxygen.
Returned to academia in 2023, Myz Greyjoy presently researches American Ballet Modernism in the mid-twentieth century. Their work situates female choreographers, producers, and pedagogues of the era as integral to the formation of ballet-as-industry in the United States, and strives to expose the patriarchal strain which plagues dance history archives. Recent conference presentations include UCSB’s Graduate Recruitment Conference (Santa Barbara, 2025) and CORPS de ballet International Conference (Salt Lake City, 2025).