EXPRESSIVE
VISCERAL
CEREBRAL
The mission of Sikora + Dance is to create aesthetically accessible yet challenging dances for both the audience and the artists. Our work combines emotional and intellectual subject matter with athletic, technical dance movement. We aim to reveal unnoticed intricacies of the human body and mind, provoking reflection and encouraging the enjoyment of our imperfect existence.
We are a company expanding our limits and the limits of our form. We challenge ourselves to seek novel positions, connections, and feelings. We attend to the sensorial experiences 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 and repeat again, making space for all of the substance within a single idea to emerge.
Our
Approach
To create each new work, we begin with dance improvisations, experimenting with movement, breath, gaze, and touch in search of embodied sensations that resonate with our lived experience, whether familiar or new. We share our observations, identifying qualities, motifs, and layers of intention that we sample to build movement sequences, improvisational scores, and partnering work. In creating set movement, we seek surprising shapes and trajectories, embracing technique but resisting habit. Then we construct layers of motion, finding a balance between 4-dimensional visual design and authentic expression.
The
Company
Sikora + Dance dancers possess exceptional technique, qualitative range, and emotional intelligence. They draw extensively on training in ballet, contemporary dance, partnering, improvisation, acting, and music. They have a particular clarity of energy and line that defines and suffuses the space. At times, they ride their momentum through textured and curved trajectories, and at other times, they contain space and allow it to move through them. They seamlessly transition between virtuosic dance movements and quiet, deeply human moments of reflection. To achieve this breadth of tasks, the dancers pursue the unification of the physical, emotional, and cerebral in one precise focus.
Sikora + Dance is sustained by the generosity of individuals who believe in thoughtful, research-driven art. Your support directly funds dancers’ pay, rehearsal time, production resources, and the collaborators who make each work possible. Contributions allow us to continue creating performances that invite reflection, connection, and critical engagement through movement. If our mission resonates with you, we invite you to support the company and help bring future work to life.
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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