Meet the Company

Origins

Collateral & Co. Contemporary Dance Company was founded in May 2017 when Founder and Artistic Director Caitlin McCarty returned home to the Reno, Nevada area after working for New York-based Gallim Dance. Collateral & Co. explores the intricacies of the human experience and investigates the nuances of everyday life through exploration of written word, physical and emotional experiences, and bodily expression.

The company’s body of work includes performances at Reno Little Theater for the premiere of their first work Gunpowder and Femme in 2017, the production of The Poetry Movement, a 2018 Artown site specific dance performance at Sundance Books and Music, Dust Horizon at the Nevada Musuem of Art in April 2019, Dust Settled as part of Artown in 2019, and The Space Above at the Nevada Museum of Art in February 2020. The company has performed site specific works at Nevada Humanities’ 2018 and 2019 Literary Crawls and commissions throughout the Reno community.

The company filmed its first dance film, The Space Above, produced and directed by Tweaking Reality Studios, in October 2019. This film was named an official selection of the Utah Dance Film Festival and the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. The evening-length dance work, The Space Above, premiered at the Nevada Museum of Art in February of 2020. The company was recently honored to create a dance film titled Believe, produced and directed by Tweaking Reality Studios, which evaluated life during a pandemic and premiered as part of TEDxReno’s virtual event in July of 2020. In July 2021, the company’s evening-length dance film, Felt Like Five, premiered at the Nevada Museum of Art and was also shown at The Virgil.

In July of 2022, the company had the great honor of performing at the Nevada Museum of Art for their seventh, evening-length work, Across the Neon Landscape. Excerpts of Across the Neon Landscape then closed the Pioneer Center for the Performing Art’s Dog Days of Summer Dance Festival in August of 2022.

The company is currently in the studio rehearsing for their next commission and evening-length work to premiere March 2023 and October 2023 respectively.

Current Collaborators

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Shannon Aguillon

Guest Dance Artist

Nicole Emmerich

Dance Artist

Cassidy Ratanakul

Dance Artist

Kimberly Yukes

Dance Artist