A B O U T M E
BIO
Caroline Bradbury is a multidisciplinary dance and performance artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her training began with the guidance of her grandmother, Pat Snow, in Boston, MA. She is currently a senior at the University of the Arts, about to receive her BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Caroline has studied at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC where she performed in the Footprints program, premiring a new work by Israeli choreographer Dafi Altabeb. She has also studied with several artists in Israel, notably participating in Dana Rotenburg’s Project 48. Caroline has performed in the works of Bobbi Jene Smith, Maya Brinner, Jillian Peña, Sidra Bell, Zoe Scofield, Curt Haworth, Katie-Swords Thurman, and Jesse Zaritt. She recently worked with Bobbi Jene Smith and Thom White in works that premiered last winter. She has also recently studied Stephen Petronio's work which will premier as Portraits of Re:Lareigne in the UAarts School of Dance Big Share Out. In her own work, Caroline is focusing on deconstruction of shame through multidisciplinary forms including movement practices, painting, and collage.
ARTIST STATEMENT
the performances i make are about the process. i’m concerned with the ways in which we care and are nestled into each other in times of need or exploration. (((the ways we connect or don’t connect, the ways we unleash everything at once, the ways we hold it all within.))) i am enamored by the moving body and how it has the ability to shake everything we thought we knew into a fleeting reverence. i like to uproot what is difficult for me, place it under a microscope, and study it until it collapses in on itself. i like to be honest and poetic and make things that are imperfect. i like to make space for everyone that wants to take it up and to convince those that are too fearful to try that they should. i move and create as an erotic, powerful being. i think we all have the capacity to be erotic, powerful beings.
dear you,
ABOUTNESS is about nothing and everything at once. It is about the inexplicable and the finte and the multiple. It is about the sister I grew up next to and the stranger I held my breath next to in the elevator. It is about the space between me and the next person I’ll fall in love with. It is all of the balloons children have lost and their connection to their mother. It is standing at the top of a skyscraper and screaming down to someone you know below. It is all of the one-thousand page books we’ll never read and the shitty poems we’ll write. It is all of these things and everything between them existing at once, in one space, in the present moment. A lens so full it is about to crack, a mirror that shows infinity, a confrontation of the self, a becoming, a shedding
The shedding, the shedding, the shedding, the shedding…
caro