About our work

Our work uses space, movement, and design to create active, performative environments. We often draw on pedestrian movements or concepts, taking influence from daily life and abstracting or expanding those ideas. Some past investigations have examined home spaces, furniture, interpersonal relationships, and team culture. Using found soundscapes and improvisational structures to generate movement, these concepts create a sense of casual intimacy–we’re anti-precious. We have shown work throughout New York in spaces including the Jack Crystal Theater, Holyrad Studio, El Jardin del Paraiso, Westbeth and Chez Bushwick.

Artist Statement

Lauren Kravitz and Shantel Prado started making work together in 2015. From the beginning, we’ve examined relationships, investigating how two identities, bodies, weights, and surfaces meet, connect, and respond. Our work explores this interplay through performance, offering space for reflection rather than resolution. Intentionally abstract and relatable, we use sound (sometimes music), visual design, and place–from traditional theaters to outdoor spaces– to shape the landscape of our work. Drawing from pedestrian movements, we dissect form and practice honest decision-making in order to discover meaning through choice. Underlying our work is a critique of capitalist ideals like self-interest and constant productivity. We explore these values in tension with themes of cooperation, responsibility, and sustainability. In doing so, we consider not only how people move together, but why and to what end. Time is one of our favorite tools. We use patience, duration, and stillness as vehicles to deepening attention and expanding focus, free from the desperation of urgency. Our past works have examined home spaces, furniture, friendship, and team culture–always returning to the ways bodies navigate systems, roles, and shared environments. Ultimately, we hope our work feels like a moment suspended in time—something ongoing, infinite, and quietly transformative. A glimpse into a larger continuum.

Images by Ramon Grande

  • Lauren Kravitz

    Lauren Kravitz is a dance artist, educator, and arts organizer based in Dallas, TX. She began her professional career in New York as a member of Take Dance, UNA Projects, and Indah Walsh Dance Company, among others, and she is a performer and Rehearsal Director with New York-based Seán Curran Company, which she joined in 2016. Lauren has performed professionally around the country at the ODC Theater (CA), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NY), and the Watermill Center (NY), among others, and taught at New York University, Sam Houston State University, The Wooden Floor, and more. Her own work has been presented in New York and Dallas at venues including Pageant (NY), Gibney Dance Center (NYC), and the Wyly Theatre (TX). In addition to making and performing dance, Lauren is passionate about contributing to an active, sustainable dance field. She is a founding contributor to Agora Artists, a DFW-based organization supporting dancers through programming and professional development, and she continues to create process-oriented opportunities for dancers to move, craft, and exchange through workshops and performances. Lauren received her early training from Booker T. Washington HSPVA and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance. Learn more at laurenkravitz.com or follow her on IG @lauren.kravitz

  • Shantel Prado

    Shantel Prado is a dance and video artist based in Queens, NY. She began her dance training at The Wooden Floor in Santa Ana, California and studied Classical and Contemporary Dance at the Orange County School of the Arts. She received a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch where she had the opportunity to study abroad at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. She dances professionally as a freelance artist and is co-creator and performer in duet works she makes with Lauren Kravitz. Shantel has performed in New York at venues including The Jack Crystal Theater, Peridance, Holyrad Studio, Chez Bushwick, Westbeth, Paragon, and Pageant. Shantel is the Marketing Manager for the Mark Morris Dance Group and she manages the video production and performance archive for Pageant. Follow her on IG @prado.bag