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Sikora + Dance was founded as a platform for continued creative growth and development for Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora and her collaborators. Its mission is to create aesthetically accessible, yet challenging dances for the audience members and artists. The work is created in collaborative rehearsals that combine deep, emotional subject matter with virtuosic movement for a fulfilling artistic process. It aims to reveal unnoticed intricacies of the human body and mind, to provoke reflection and encourage the enjoyment of our imperfect existence.
We are a community of artists expanding our own limits and the limits of our form. In the studio, we challenge ourselves to seek unfamiliar positions, connections, and feelings. We attend to the sensations that arise during our motion, collecting physical and emotional data that informs the development of our choreography in both form and theme. We hold conflicting truths. We find nuance in duality and celebrate complexity. We push each other, pull each other, lift each other, lower each other, continually inventing new moving architectures through interlocking anatomical structures. We repeat. We rotate. We shift our vantage point. We repeat and repeat again, making space for all of the juice held within a single idea to emerge, to be seen and tasted.
Americans in Havana is inspired by a trip Caitlin took to Cuba with her husband Andy, who was returning 30 years after immigrating to the United States as a teenager. The work is a love letter to Andy and his family– celebrating the beauty, passion, and resilience expressed in traditional Cuban songs. It follows the arc of the trip from classic cars to the world's most beautiful beach to the stunning architecture of Old Havana, eventually taking a turn that most Americans could never have foreseen.
Americans in Havana
Sharp Woman is an exploration of how women negotiate gender-based expectations and limitations and how their tactics have evolved over the past few generations. An all-female trio navigates angular positions with precision and attack, at times playing with provocatively feminine imagery, all searching for a sustainable sense of empowerment through self-acceptance. They seem to make some headway, but old questions and conflicts linger in the background.
Sharp Woman
Neopolitan Songs
A simple love duet set to music by Roberto Murolo, Neapolitan Songs explores the romance, confines, challenges, and comfort of a lasting partnership. The dancers liltingly glide, swoop, and spiral in unison. They explore the ways their bodies might fit together in space and maneuver around each other. Tension grows as they begin to exert influence and fall into asymmetrical roles. The power struggle comes to a breaking point and the couple is faced with a decision about how to move forward.
Caitlin Sikora is a dancer, choreographer, and software engineer living in New York City. A Tisch Dance MFA Alum, Sikora has been choreographing dances for nearly 20 years. Her work uses unique movement patterns in complex layers to explore space, texture, anatomy, and the human psyche.
In her research at Google's AI Innovation & Research division, she focuses on developing technologies that encourage people to be present in the physical world rather than retreating to digital spaces