James Caton
James teaches dance in the acting/music theater program.
James Caton is an Associate Teaching Professor of Dance at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. Along with Teaching at CMU, Mr. Caton has served as choreographer on many plays, musicals and cabarets including Kiss Me Kate, As You Like It, The Hostage, Assassins, Tough Nut Cabaret, Hello Again, A Little Night Music and many others. His Moon Ballet, part of the Moon Ark, a museum for the Moon has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Mr. Caton was a member of Ballet Metropolitan and the Eglevsky Ballet, under the direction of Edward Villella. He has also danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Chicago Ballet and the Florida Ballet. He has performed many principal and soloist roles including Mercutio in Ruth Page’s Romeo And Juliet, Gurn in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide and the leading man in George Balanchine’s Allegro Brilliante And Valse Fantasie James Caton attended the New York School of Ballet on full scholarship, under the direction of Richard Thomas and Barbara Fallis.