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Paige Cunningham Caldarella
lab artist, 2012

artist biography

Paige Cunningham Caldarella studied at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. She received her BFA from the Juilliard School and went on to dance for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, touring throughout Europe, Australia and the US. Mrs. Caldarella holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an Assistant Professor at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. She has performed with The Seldoms, Colleen Halloran Performance Group, Linda Lehovec, Darrell Jones, and Sara Hook, among others. Her choreography has been seen at Chicago's Cultural Center as a recipient of the DanceBridge program, the Krannert Center, Links Hall, the Aronoff Center and Summer Stages Dance in Concord, Massachusetts. Additionally, Mrs. Caldarella has guest taught and choreographed at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Florida, Gainesville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Beloit College,the Isadora Festival in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia and Boston Ballet's summer program. Check out www.balletlabchicago.com for more info.



during the CDF year
Voguing, an underground dancesport and Contemporary Ballet being a “privileged” form of concert dance, both serve as a sort of sub-culture to their mainstream counterparts. Voguing tends to be relegated to the underground Black and Latino communities. Female Contemporary Ballet dancers tend to be “freaks” of the classical ballet world, often too tall or athletic looking to fit into the corps. I am interested in the ways in which these forms vacillate between ideas of masculinity and femininity and deal with inherent struggles of identity and acceptance.





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