DanSeries Collective
Design by Genna Stott
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.
Disco Tailgate Series
(2024)
Disco Tailgate Series Pop Up One, Two, Three, Four
The Disco Tailgate Series emerges from a shared interest in spectacle, virtuosity, absurdity, disco, communal joy, and socially-engaged performance practices. Inspired by an American tradition of “gathering” (aka: tailgating), DSC finds ways to celebrate the mundane, infra-ordinary, everyday moments that usually go unnoticed. (We see you Georges Perec, 1973). 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 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.
The Doc Series: Doc Up | Pop Up
(2022 - 2023)
Pop Up One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Pop-up, BOOM Charlotte Fringe Festival
A documented series of pop-up performances/ installations within the Greensboro community that present dance in unexpected, public spaces always involving a cooler, a chair, a speaker, a sign, and Doc Martens.
PC: Carter Wade Photography
Power Tools and Party Tricks
(2022)
Durational dance performance, installation series Performance One, Two, Three Presented as part of the Sequels Exhibition Concept and Performance by: Caitlyn Schrader and kt williams Collaboration with Adam Carlin (social practice artist)
