Nattie + Hollis
Hollis Bartlett (he/him) + Nattie Trogdon (she/her) are choreographers, performers, practitioners, and partners based in Lenapehoking (currently known as Brooklyn, NY). We create dance works and research based practices around rigor and repetition, ghosts and vessels, objectivity and subjectivity, and our shared lineage and embodied relationship.
Our collaborations have been presented at Gibney (Work Up Artists), Duo Multicultural Arts Center, Jack Crystal Theater, FIRST LOOK at Brooklyn Ballet, No Theme Festival, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Exponential Festival, Stuffed at Judson Church, MAD Festival, Earthdance, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place and virtually through freeskewl and the The Post/Future Performance Festival.
We have been artists in residence at Chapman Steamer Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Dance Complex, Peaceable Barn, The Floor on Atlantic and the Tisch Summer Dance Residency at NYU.
Our performing and teaching practices are deeply tied into our dance making. Together we’ve mostly notably performed for Doug Varone, Brian Brooks, Joanna Kotze, David Dorfman, Keith Johnson, and Kimberly Bartosik. We’ve been guest artists at Roger Williams University, University of Maryland, Swarthmore College, Salem State University, SUNY Purchase, NYU, and The College at Brockport. Currently we are teaching artists through SUNY Purchase and freeskewl; where we curated a rotating class series called Pop-Up Practice and a virtual festival called the Big Pedagogy Festival.
Nattie is a white and Latina southerner born and raised in rural North Carolina. She is a graduate of the high school program at the UNC School of the Arts, studying in both the ballet and modern departments. She received her BFA in performance from SUNY Purchase where she was invited to perform and share her choreography at the 2012 daCI/WDA Global Dance Summit in Taipei, Taiwan.
Hollis is a white midwest, northern transplant hailing from Barrington, Illinois and later Mashpee Massachusetts. He is graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and studied abroad at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. He served as the president of the Dance NYC Junior Committee at the end of his tenure there in 2015 and has worn many administrative hats through his work with Doug Varone and Dancers since 2011.