Sikora Dance Inc
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Mission Statement
The purpose of Sikora Dance is to promote dance as an art form through choreographing and presenting new programs of professional quality, as well as sponsoring educational events. The company dance provides its artistic associates–including Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora–with an environment and support to continue to develop their choreographic and performance craft. Additionally, the organization supports efforts to develop new technologies that propel dance into the 21st century through novel embodied experiences, better connected global dance communities, and better supported dance collaborations.
About This Cause
Sikora Dance is a new contemporary dance company based in NYC that serves as a vehicle for the creative works of Artistic Director Caitlin Sikora. The company is preparing for its inaugural season in Spring of 2023, in which it will produce a split evening of works in collaboration with Summation Dance. About the Artistic Director Sikora graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of California, Irvine with a BA in Dance and a BS in Physics with Honors. During her studies at UCI, she performed works by William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Lisa Naugle, and many others. She was honored for producing Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Physics for her investigation of leptogenesis under the mentorship of Dr. Mu-Chun Chen. Sikora also designed and taught a seminar to UCI undergraduates on the Physics of Dance in the pilot year of the UTeach Program. Sikora has danced professionally with Winifred Harris’s Between Lines Dance Company, Indah Walsh Dance Company, and Hannah Kahn Dance Company. She has worked with numerous independent choreographers such as Kate Sicchio, Anna Claire Brunelli, and Meredith Black. Her creative work has been featured in the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Warwick Summer Arts Festival, MIT’s Hacking Arts Festival, and SXSW. In 2015, Sikora completed her MFA in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, she performed works by Merce Cunningham, Cora Bos-Kroese, Lorena Delgado, and Mathew James Talaugon. She also received two interdepartmental grants to collaborate with students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Following her studies at Tisch, Sikora was awarded a residency hosted by Danspace, where she investigated sensory perception and decision-making in choreography and improvisation. In 2016, Sikora graduated from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering with an MS in Integrated Digital Media. In her tenure at Tandon, she worked with music and data artist Luke Dubois, as well as affective computing professor Winslow Burleson. She focused her research on classification of movement quality and haptic language development by way of studying computer science. Her collaboration on haptic wearable sports training devices led to her co-founding startup Remo Technologies, Inc, which received support from Verizon's Connected Futures Challenge and NYC Media Lab's Combine incubator.