About Catie Brier |
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Catie is a world-renowned flexibility and contortion instructor, currently based in Munich, Germany. Her clients include professional circus performers, pole dancers, aerialists, yogis, handbalancers, acrobats, dancers, and weight lifters, among others. Catie enjoys working with all levels, and specializes in making flexibility training approachable for anyone, no matter what their background is. Her focuses include helping new students build strong foundations, teaching advanced contortion safely (with longevity in mind), and troubleshooting flexibility areas that most people find hard to access.
Over the last nine years of teaching, Catie has honed her skills as an instructor, and developed a thriving and entirely unique contortion program at Circus Center in San Francisco. In 2013 Catie established the Contortion Intensive, a one of a kind intensive summer training program specifically for contortionists that ran for 5 years in a row. Now, in 2020, Catie has moved her family to Germany, where she offers workshops, intensives, and private training. Catie’s highly personalized, safe, and effective techniques attract students from all over the world. Throughout her career Catie has been passionate about teaching the art of contortion, while inspiring people to push the limits of what their bodies can do. BACKGROUND: Catie began her training at Dance and Circus Arts of Tampa Bay at the age of 11, learning from Debra Brown (renowned choreographer, Cirque du Soleil) and internationally acclaimed contortionist Laurence Racine. At the age of 16, Catie moved to San Francisco to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional contortionist. Upon moving to San Francisco, Catie trained with acrobatics legend Master Lu Yi at the San Francisco Circus Center, and Mongolian contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. Soon after, Catie began performing in countless shows across North America, with companies including Quixotic, Circus Bella, Trapeze World and New Pickle Circus. Catie retired from performing in 2013 as she started her family, and began to focus solely on teaching. |
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