Stray Projects is a project performance company operating at the intersection of dance, theater, art installation, and new music to present site-specific performances and immersive productions that highlight the human experience. The company is directed by Caitlin Dutton-Reaver, who has presented theatrical, site-specific, and immersive dance and dance theater works in NYC as well as up and down the East Coast since 2010. Integrating her highly collaborative process with a blend of artistic mediums as an impressionistic approach to storytelling, Stray Projects reimagines age-old tales and shared human experiences in a contemporary context to invite new and diverse interpretations from audiences.
Caitlin Dutton-Reaver is a graduate of the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, studied at the London Contemporary Dance School, and holds an MFA from Montclair State University. She has performed on concert dance stages and site-specific venues in New York, California, Georgia, and London for choreographers/companies such as Jody Oberfelder, Regina Nejman, Calpulli Danza Mexicana, Amalgamate Dance Company, Lane Gifford, Rosalind Newman, Nelly van Bommel, Backhausdance, Motion/TRIBE, Lauri Stallings, and Richard Alston. Starting in 2015, she devoted the bulk of her career to Third Rail Project’s Bessie award-winning immersive theater production Then She Fell with nearly 1,100 performances in three roles.
As an independent choreographer, Caitlin has presented dances domestically and internationally since 2010, and as of 2014 under the caitlin+dancers moniker, her company was presented in numerous traditional and site-specific venues throughout NYC and the surrounding region such as the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Socrates Sculpture Park, City Center Studios, Brookfield Place, Grounds for Sculpture, WestBeth Artists’ Residence, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and the Falchi Building. She has also toured along the East Coast to Vermont, Georgia, and North Carolina. The company rebranded as Stray Projects in 2020 to incorporate a wider range of performance including immersive dance theater.