About

Caitlyn Swett (she/her) is a dance-maker, sound artist, and arts administrator from Black Mountain, NC. Her work has meandered throughout North Carolina and led her to co-found Triptych Collective (Charlotte, 2010-14), co-produce On Site/In Sight Dance Festival (Winston-Salem, 2016-17), collaborate with interdisciplinary noise/dance project Paideia (NC/NY/LA, 2016-20), and perform in electro-poetry band Streak of Tigers (Durham, 2018-present). As a dancer, Caitlyn has performed with choreographers throughout the state, including a recent collaboration with Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs for their work a bird you must not miss, commissioned and presented by the American Dance Festival in 2022. As a sound artist, Caitlyn has created soundscapes for Culture Mill's Eclipse, commissioned and presented by Carolina Performing Arts in 2022, among other forthcoming projects as part of the Southern Futures at CPA initiative.

Caitlyn’s administrative career has served award-winning choreographers, festivals, and venues in North Carolina and beyond including Neighborhood Theatre (2014), Helen Simoneau Danse (2015-17), American Dance Festival (2017-21), and Culture Mill (2021-present). For 10 years, Caitlyn has honed grant writing, development operations, organization management, event production, social media management, press relations, video editing, accounting, and more.

Through-lines of Caitlyn’s artistic and administrative career include sustained commitments to embodied approaches to making, creating and supporting experimental and socially-engaged performance in non-traditional venues, and a sonic curiosity.