Who We Are
Our vision for Dance Assembly NC (DANC) is three-fold:
To strengthen connections across the statewide professional contemporary dance communities by bolstering lines of communication between regional dance networks in North Carolina
To encourage the flow of resource sharing between statewide professional dance communities
To increase professional opportunities for contemporary dance artists in NC by:
Developing reliable and regular advanced training in technique classes for professional dancers
Creating new paid opportunities to perform in and present choreography
Forging collaborative relationships and projects for dancers, choreographers and artists of varied disciplines statewide
Meet the DA Team
Carrie Plew and Caitlyn Schrader join forces as Dance Assembly NC!
As professional dance artists and educators living and working in Greensboro, NC, they met four years ago when they were both Artists-in-Residence through the North Carolina Dance Festival. Quickly, they realized they shared a mutual synergy and exciting vision for the professional dance communities of NC.
Carrie Plew | Co-Founder
Carrie Plew is a choreographer, dance educator, and performer. She is a Certified Movement Analyst (Laban Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies), and incorporates the theories of Bartenieff Fundamentals and Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis into her teaching and choreography. Carrie earned a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from UNC-Greensboro and also studied at the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts in Perth, Australia. She spent 14 years in New York City performing in and producing work. Carrie remains in motion in other ways, too: as a massage therapist (Carrie Plew, LMBT- Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork), bungee fitness instructor (Owner of Fly Factor, LLC), and mother of two!
Caitlyn Schrader | Co-Founder
Caitlyn Schrader is a dance artist, educator, curator, and choreographer with 16 years of professional dance experience across New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Australia. As a mover and maker, she is steeped in the practice of Safety Release technique and rooted in somatic perspectives. She makes choreographic works under the monikers DanSeries Collective and liminality project, and teaches both in the community and at local NC universities. Caitlyn is equally passionate about providing platforms for artists and their communities to collaborate, engage, and exchange. She received an MFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. To learn more, visit www.caitlynschrader.com