Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for HomeBody: I'm Still Here: Transgressing the Borders of Disciplines and Dystopian World-Building in Performance. This Performance-Lecture with Ingrid Kapteyn will take place on Tuesday, March 24, from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, in the Class of ’56 Dance Studio Theatre (SB10), Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Free and open to the public.
As an international freelance performer whose work has taken her from Off-Broadway stages in New York City to the five-floor hotel housing the hit immersive production Sleep No More in Shanghai, Ingrid approaches movement—body language—as a profoundly universal and unifying means of communication. In HomeBody: I'm Still Here, Ingrid shares episodes from her career as both dancer and creator, exploring how we make sense of experience through the body. Drawing from her dance-theater company’s dystopian world-building, her ancestral research in collaboration with Assistant Professor of the Practice Danielle Russo, and the somatic principles that ground her physical practice, she frames bodily awareness as a pathway to accessing memory, inscribed history, and future possibility. Part presentation, part discussion, HomeBody: I'm Still Here honors the body as refuge—a site for grounding, connection, and direction amid the onslaught of contemporary life.
This event is part of DANCING HOME/LAND, a yearlong series of live performances and activations, guest artist residencies and symposia, and extra/curricular experiences that engages dance and performance artists, students, and communities in dialogue around memory, migration, and place—and where fantasy can serve as a site for reworlding belonging and futurity. In collaboration with PMA Senior Lecturer Theo Black.
Ingrid Kapteyn is an international performer and creative collaborator with a BFA in Dance and The Martha Hill Prize from The Juilliard School. She was the Resident Director of Sleep No More NYC in 2024, and she has performed in dance and theater productions with Punchdrunk (The Burnt City in London and Sleep No More in Shanghai (original cast) and NYC), MacArthur Fellow Martha Clarke, The Metropolitan Opera, Brian Brooks, Danielle Russo Performance Projects, Wally Cardona, Hilary Easton, Compagnie Yōkaï, Kelly Ashton Todd, Marla Phelan, Assaf Salhov, David Norsworthy, and Kristen Carcone, as well as in live immersive events for Valentino, Anheuser-Busch, AMC, and Disney. Ingrid has co-created, produced, and performed dystopian danceplays in New York, Chicago, London, and Shanghai with Welcome to Campfire and taught around the world, including for Springboard, Juilliard Global Ventures, NYU’s School of Medicine, UNCSA, Playwrights Horizons, The Ailey School, Gibney, Peridance, and Princeton, Bucknell, Rutgers, and Cornell Universities. Follow her work @ingridmkapteyn.
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Join PMA for two additional dance workshops, including a Contemporary Dance Workshop on Tuesday, March 24, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, in the Ballet Studio (Room 320), and a Making Dance on Camera Workshop on Wednesday, March 25, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, in the Class of ’56 Dance Studio Theatre (SB10).
Photo credit: Natalie Deryn Johnson
