Dual Rivet
Who We Are
Dual Rivet is a women-led dance company that creates work for both film and stage. Co-directed by Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth, the NYC-based company is focused on sharing what it means to be women leaders in the arts through teaching, performing and curating festivals. Presenting and teaching our work nationally and internationally, we believe in accessible PHYSICAL STORYTELLING, the success of WOMEN CREATORS, and our MAXIMUM CAPACITY as humans.
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Our Work
We make work for stage and film, that exchange a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. We invite viewers into a world where time and space morph within a non-linear narrative. Our work focuses on the intimacy of everyday life, magnifying and contorting our reality into a surrealist landscape.
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Our Focus
We use cinematic and large-scale imagery to evoke introspection and challenge observers to examine deeper truths about the shared human experience.
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Our Movement
Through rigorous physicality, our focus on contemporary floorwork and partnering weave together layers of sensitivity, intimacy, and interpersonal relationships. We’ve committed to teaching and exploring contemporary partnering in a way that challenges gender roles and the heteronormativity that comes with the form.
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Our Goal
Through our focus on an everyday landscape as well as the use of film, our goal is to reach a wider audience making dance accessible. As two women directors, we aim to be examples while uplifting women* creators and makers around the world.
Support Us!
If you want to help support us in anyway, make a donation! We are in partnership with Arts On Site - a non profit arts organization- so your donations are 100% tax deductible!
