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 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 and 2026, among other projects as part of the Southern Futures at CPA initiative.

Caitlyn’s administrative career has served award-winning choreographers, festivals, organizations, 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 more than a decade, Caitlyn has honed many facets of arts nonprofit management including grant writing, development operations, event production, communications/PR, content creation and video editing, and more.

Through-lines of Caitlyn’s career include sustained commitments to embodied approaches to making, creating and supporting experimental and socially-engaged performance in unconventional venues, and values-alignment.