Caitlyn Schrader
Director, Greensboro Project Space and CVPA Community Engagement
School of Art
Email Address: cmschrad@uncg.edu
Education
MFA in Dance (Choreography), University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2022
MS in Education, University of Rochester, 2011
BA in Communications Through the Arts & French and Francophone Studies, minor in Dance, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, 2010
Biography
Currently, Caitlyn holds a dual role at UNCG as Director of the School of Art’s Greensboro Project Space and of CVPA Community Engagement. She also teaches courses in the Schools of Art and Dance, as well as serves as Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice minor program.
Additionally, she continues to work as an independent dance artist, educator, and choreographer making and presenting solo works as well as collaborative work under the monikers DanSeries Collective (DSC) and liminality project. DSC’s dance discography takes the form of series and is typically placed in public locations, always involves Doc Martens, and presents in both North Carolina and Illinois. liminality project finds value in practices that are rooted in community, experimentation, horizontal integration of disciplines, and authentic human relationships.
As a mover and maker, she is steeped in the practice of Safety Release technique and rooted from somatic perspectives through her personal investigations in yoga, Kinetic Awareness, Cortical Field Re-education, and Alexander Technique. She functions within the belief that the act of making dance is a social practice; she strives to use dance as a strategy to construct and invite diverse experiences, exploring how dance intersects with life, challenging easy classifications through social provocation and immersive platforms. A theme of her choreographic works is to probe the traditional ways dance is experienced and presented, creating environments that exist between the expected and unexpected; her works have taken the hybrid forms of installations, traditional full-length dance works, and series of events or happenings. Caitlyn is equally passionate about providing platforms for artists and their communities to collaborate, engage, and exchange.
A New York native, Caitlyn made her way to Boston, Massachusetts, France, and Australia before arriving in North Carolina. Previously, she has taught extensively within private and public institutions in New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Southern France. She has been a member of professional dance companies, BIODANCE (NY) and EgoArt, Inc. (MA), as well as performed in works by several independent choreographers: William (Bill) Evans, Lane Gifford/LaneCo Arts (NYC), Heidi Henderson, Annie Kloppenberg, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group (NYC) to name a few. Her live and filmic works have been presented widely across the Northeast, the South, and abroad in Ireland.
Areas of Responsibility
- Oversee daily operations at Greensboro Project Space (GPS)
- Curate and organize exhibitions and events at GPS
- Supervise a team of Graduate Assistants and undergraduate interns at GPS
- Manage marketing and promotion efforts for GPS
- Act as a resource for all community-engaged program coordinators and students; facilitate community connections and partnership
- Oversee the CVPA Community Engagement Advisory Committee