DanSeries Collective
Design by Genna Stott
Who We Are…
Caitlyn Schrader and kt williams join forces under the moniker DanSeries Collective.
They traverse creative disciplines through dance.
They believe in working with, in, and for their community.
They collect voices, ideas, and experiences that feed their process and result in a “series” of products.
Together they aim to challenge easy classifications of dance and performance.
Dance Discography
DSC makes dance in the form of public performances/installations/events that are informally presented as a series. Typically, these dance-happenings take place in public locations always involving Doc Martens.
Disco Tailgate Series
(2024 - )
Disco Tailgate Series Pop Up One
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)
