Current Projects
COMMON CIRCUS
2021-Present
Common Circus is just that—a spectacular exploration of the mundane. It’s also a community tool to encourage conversation, a device for self-reflection, and a path to developing empathy.
Common Circus, currently exists as a 60 minute physical theatre piece that utilizes devised text, dance, action theatre, sport, spoken word, and comedy to examine our daily norms, from folding
laundry, to making coffee, to nighttime existential dread. Picture the parkour equivalent of an 18 step toddler bedtime ritual, completing common household chores as high-stake sport in a theatre space, and a comedic round table discussion of workplace “norms” as a group of gig workers encourages an audience to play “Never Have I Ever… (at work)”.
AWARDS, SUPPORT, FUNDING
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The Boston Foundation’s LAB Fund (2022-2023)
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Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Innovation Fund (2022-2023)
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Boston Dancemakers’ Residency (2021-2022) - Resident Artist at the Boston Center for the Arts
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NEFA’s New England Dance Fund (2021-2022)
PRESS
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Boston Center for the Arts’ “Hello My Name Is…” Interview
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Dance Informa Preview
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The Boston Globe “The Ticket”
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ArtsFuse Weekly Picks
PREVIOUS SHOWINGS
Progress Showings:
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Boston Center for the Arts, 2022
Accessible Digital Showings:
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Providence Fringe Festival (2023)
Walking Tours & Pop Up Performances:
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Roslindale Village (Boston) 2023
Contradictions + Casual Self Loathing
2018-Present
Everyone’s got baggage—mortifications that will haunt us forever, a regrettable high school look, that hug that turned out to be a handshake, the time we self-censored and didn’t say something, the time something beyond our control made us feel like absolute shit. Contradictions + Casual Self Loathing is a glimpse through the many transparencies of life experience, specifically the female experience. How can we celebrate discomfort, awkwardness, the things that push us and the things we don’t like about ourselves?
AWARDS, SUPPORT, FUNDING
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Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Fellowship
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NEFA’s New England Dance Fund
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The Dance Complex’s CATALYSTS residency program
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The Boston Foundation’s LAB Fund (2020-2021)
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Dedham Cultural Council
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Boston Cultural Council
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Reopen Creative Boston (Boston Cultural Council)
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The Krolak/Ries Fund
PREVIOUS SHOWINGS
Progress Showings:
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Endicott College 2018
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Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge) 2019
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Dance Complex's CATALYSTS Residency Showcase 2020
Debut:
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Mother Brook Arts & Community Center 2021
What's on the Line...
2021-Present
What’s on the Line… is a participatory public art piece that calls attention to the shame women carry. Populated by words typically used towards and about women, the work presents the idea that our vernacular and social norms provide permission to make outward snap judgements, which undermine security and make an entire gender of people feel “less than”. When inhabited by performers and light, the work also circles around themes of domestic labor, identity existing in layers, and transparency.
AWARDS, SUPPORT, FUNDING
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The Boston Foundation
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New England Foundation for the Arts' Public Art Learning Fund
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Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture
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Dedham Cultural Councils
PRESS
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Connect to Choreography Blog—Interview with karen Krolak
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The Boston Globe's feature on C+CSL
PREVIOUS SHOWINGS
Boston Public Library
Hyde Park Branch
2023
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Complex @ Canal Atrium Gallery
Kendall Square, Cambridge
August & September, 2022
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Bellforge Arts Center
Medfield MA
July 2022
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Mother Brook Arts & Community Center, Dedham MA
November 2021