DanSeries Collective
Who We Are…
Caitlyn Schrader (NC) and kt williams (IL) join forces under the moniker DanSeries Collective.
They make dance in the form of performances, installations, and events that are typically presented as a series, often placed in public locations, and many times (but not always) involve Doc Martens, a cooler, a sign, and a chair.
Together, they aim to challenge easy classifications of dance and performance.
Fostering long-distance collaboration, they use dance as a catalyst for maintaining and sustaining their creative partnership, ultimately making dances together, while apart.
Dance Discography
soft grip
2025
soft grip is a duet that considers what women carry physically, emotionally, and metaphorically. We reflect on the complex histories, lineages, and social experiences of womanhood and what it means to hold and support ourselves and each other. In light of these deeper questions, we commit to holding on with a soft grip: to move through life in a manner that allows us to soften, feel, and embrace challenges with ease and tenderness.
“soft grip” is the first of a three-part performance series intentionally crafted for the stage. Parts two and three will be gradually released over time, created in conversation with its preceding section.
The Disco Tailgate Series
2024
The Disco Tailgate Series emerges from a shared interest in spectacle, virtuosity, absurdity, disco, communal joy, and socially-engaged performance practices. Inspired by American traditions of “gathering” (i.e. tailgating), DSC finds ways to celebrate the mundane, infra-ordinary, everyday moments that usually go unnoticed. In this series, by toying with absurdity and spectacle through a tailgating and disco lens, DSC will slowly reveal the pure delight of community coming together that often occurs in common, and sometimes the most obvious places one would least expect.
While Caitlyn and kt are currently based in two different geographic locations (NC + IL), the Disco Tailgate Series allows them to perform, experience joy, and “gather” alone, together.
“As if life reveals itself only by way of the spectacular.”
Georges Perec, 1973, “The Infra-Ordinary”
February 24, 2024
March 23, 2024
April 27, 2024
May 18, 2024
DOC UP | POP UP
2022-2023
“The Doc Series” is a documented dance series of pop-up performances/installations/events within the Greensboro community and public spaces to take place over a one-year period, always involving Doc Martens.
DOC UP | POP UP
September 17, 2022
October 22, 2022
December 8, 2022
January 28, 2023
February 18, 2023
Pop-up Performance - BOOM Charlotte Fringe Festival
April 22, 2023
Pop-up Performance - Chicago Edition
November 6, 2023
Power Tools and Party Tricks
January - February 2022
Durational dance performance, installation series
Performance One - January 22, 2022
Performance Two - January 29, 2022
Performance Three - February 5 ,2022
Presented as part of Sequels exhibit
Concept and performance by Caitlyn Schrader and kt williams
Collaboration with Adam Carlin (social practice artist)
