BIO

Originating from classical and contemporary dance, Caitlin Adams is a choreographer, director, audio-visual artist, and producer. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance, Choreography, and Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her work has been presented at Gibney Dance NYC, Triskelion Arts, Prospect 4/New Orleans Art Biennale, NY Art Book Fair/Printed Matter, NYC Poetry Festival, Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Human Resources LA, Bates Dance Festival, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Before relocating to NYC, Adams organized Dynasty Center (2015-2017), a community space, rehearsal studio, and DIY music venue in Downtown Los Angeles' Chinatown. Then from 2018-2021, Caitlin launched NYC-based dance company, HEIDCO that specifically worked to democratize studio-practice. Caitlin Adams Studio (formally HEIDCO) is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

In June 2020, Adams was featured in an interview with BOMB Magazine (Intuition is Bodily: Caitlin Adams Interviewed). Reviews of her work have also been seen in Dance Informa, Dance Enthusiast, NPR and LA Dance Chronicle.

As a choreographer & director, Adams has collaborated with theater directors, filmmakers, classical and electronic composers, opera singers, pop musicians, and visual artists. Her choreographic direction was presented at Documenta15 in Kassel, GE in a film titled, Nestling in Rapid Floods by artist Vidischa-FADESCHA, founder of Party Office Collective.

Adams is a creative producer and director with PERFORMA, under the curatorial vision of RoseLee Goldberg where she has worked with Sylvie Fleury, Lina Lapelyte, Haegue Yang, Jacolby Satterwhite, Kevin Beasley, Madeline Hollander, Omer Fast, Nora Turato, and Franz Erhard Walther.

As a dancer/performer, she has worked with Colin Connor, Daniel Charon, Kate Wallich, Zoe Scofield, Meryl Murman, Denise Leitner, Maya Caroll,and film directors, Lior Shamriz, and Asher Hartman.  

Notable Credit: VOGUEWORLD (Condé Nast & Bureau Betak), Phish (Director of Performance, 2024 Mondegreen Festival AEG Presents/Triadic) Fila’s Bellissimo Collection Launch (Casting & Movement Director), Dove Soap (Experiential Producer) Google (Details Withheld), Minor Theater’s Marie It’s Time (HERE Arts), Normandy Sherwood’s Psychic Self Defense (HERE Arts), Hivewild’s dance film A Sigh of Origin, Rao’s Homemade Sauce ‘The Saucery Chicago’ (Dera Lee Productions), Michael Kors (NYFW), Tory Burch (NYFW), Pace Gallery (Gala honoring Nina Simone House 2023), Performa Gala 2022, Beach Sessions (Trisha Brown 2022 & Merce Cunningham 2023)

Adams has taught dancers of all ages. She was resident choreographer and movement director of Silverlake Children's Theater Group from 2015-17 and has taught in the NY public school system with organizations, Together in Dance and Wingspan Arts. Other teaching credits: Dancewave, Gibney Dance, MoreFish Open Studios

Her book, Trying Poems was published in 2017 with the support of Pomona College and LA’s former, Machine Project. It’s small print of 103 copies has been sold at Printed Matter, NY Art Book Fair, and various small bookstores in NYC.

Caitlin is currently an MFA candidate in the Sculpture discipline at Milton Avery Graduate School at Bard College.

Currently based in New York City.