CO- PRESENTS: TRICK
Carlin x PITH
4.17-18.26 | West of Lenin
Read more about the works in interviews with PITH here and Carlin here.
Let me step on your back
CREATORS + PERFORMERS | PITH (Alissa Pegram & Caroline Maxwell)
SOUND | Colby Rue
COSTUMES | Dan McLean
Caroline:
A manifestation of longing. Forming one another. External influences. External impacts. Girlhood is a machine.
Alissa:
sticking
and continuing to try to find one another
even if we don’t at the end of the day
brief intermission
Guttera
CREATOR + PERFORMER | Carlin Kramer
SOUND | Augustina Moore
GUTTERA is an effort to return to instinct and to stay with what doesn’t make sense.
An ode to feeling.
What builds up, breaks down, decays, combusts, and puddles…
To carrying on anyway
source material for score from:
kanye west
yuichiro fujimoto
sarah mccauley
agnese menguzzato
cortex of light
bela
madeline stepien
dbridge
catartsis
the bug
sy/n
qebrus & qebo
marc acardipane
gabber eleganza
mojave 3
mescalinum united
LAND acknowledgment
We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish people, the original stewards of this land. We are guests here. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish people that are still here, continuing to honor and bring to light their ancient heritage. Donate to the Duwamish tribe here.
FROM THE PRODUCERS
Thank you for joining us this evening at our third iteration of CO-PRESENTS, CO-’s residency and performance platform. Tonight, you’re seeing a split-bill evening from SHOW10’s PITH - a duo made up of Alissa Pegram and Caroline Maxwell, and Carlin Kramer from SHOW2. Maybe you met Carlin’s “Tanc” in March 2022, who came to life through jangling clanking metals, stealing our hearts through highly-physical durational efforts and triumphantly overcoming something we couldn’t name, but could all feel. More recently, maybe you met PITH in June 2025 - insect-like, precise, intricate, and whimsical - the mesmerizing magic of two bodies as one. Both Carlin and PITH possess the ability to transform themselves as performers into something otherworldly. Perhaps that’s the TRICK - they give themselves to their art so fully that they go somewhere else - and they don’t forget to take us with them. It’s freeing to escape this realm for a moment as we experience theirs, and we hope you enjoy the journey as much as we have.
xo,
M + E
CREW
CO-PRODUCERS | CO- (Emma Lawes & Maya Tacon)
RESIDENCY SUPPORT | Exit Space, YAW, Base, and Seattle Theater Group
LIGHTING DESIGNER & OPERATOR | Trevor Cushman
SOUND OPERATOR | DJ Calico
DESIGN | Ryan Hunt
MARKETING | Symone Sanz
PHOTO | Cameron Day O’Connell + Jim Coleman
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alissa and Caroline met in 2021 performing for a local cabaret with not a clue about the other. From there, PITH was born.
The love-child of two dizzy dreamers. PITH, delves into the realms of erotic freedom, bizarre impulses, and individual yearnings.
CARLIN KRAMER is a Seattle-based dance artist, teacher, improviser, and performer whose work spans contemporary dance, improvisation, nightlife, and theatrical performance. After completing the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program in 2015, Carlin performed with YC2 for three seasons before joining Jody Kuehner’s (Cherdonna Shinatra) company DONNA in 2018. In 2019, she began teaching Dance Church® and co-founded the performance duo OVERKILL, which has since created and presented work at On the Boards, Kremwerk, XO Seattle, and other underground spaces. In 2023, Carlin performed in a three-hour durational piece with Emma Wheeler (OVERKILL), Lavinia Vago, and Heather Kravas, and in 2024 collaborated on FKK, a hypermedia immersive performance by Lavinia Vago at the Georgetown Steam Plant through Velocity’s Made in Seattle program. Carlin is currently developing her first full length-solo work, set to premier in 2026.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU to Colby Rue for creating our music, Dan McLean for our costumes, Rabbit for providing us with extra space to rehearse, Maya and Emma for believing in us, and our friends for inspiring and supporting us. -PITH
THANK YOU August for collaborating and creating the sound for this piece! Thank you to my friends and my loves for helping me through every step of this process! Thank you to Maya and Emma, forever and ever. We wouldn’t be here without you two! <3 -Carlin
THANK YOU to our friends at West of Lenin, Velocity Dance Center, 4Culture, Exit Space, YAW, Base, and Seattle Theater Group for providing the space, time, and resources necessary to bring TRICK to life.
THANK YOU to this weekend’s helping hands - Leah Crosby, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Michael Arellano, and Tuesday Darling - it takes a village.
THANK YOU to our community of donors and supporters whose contributions make events like this possible - today and for years to come, in Seattle & beyond! <3