About Us:

WE INCUBATE ARTISTS

Satellite believes in artists collaborating as equals, globally and virtually. We incubate performances, arts exchanges, and publications that allow artists to work together because we believe that is the future. We grow artists.

Satellite Collective is led by Artistic Director Kevin Draper. We are New York City based, with regional homes on Lake Michigan, and the Pacific Northwest, and participating artists throughout the world.

In 2018 Satellite Collective was awarded a Citation for Achievement in the Arts by the President & Borough of Brooklyn.

HISTORY

Satellite Collective is a vital mid-size contributor to the ecosystem that makes New York a vibrant generator of new and ground-breaking works. Neither as massive as the Metropolitan Opera, nor a small or unproven startup, Satellite Collective has spent more than a decade incubating emerging artists and giving them a shot to develop and stage major works. It’s for this reason that the Borough of Brooklyn issued Satellite a Citation of Excellence for “building a sustainable creative, financial, and collaborative model that can generate new visions for dance, multimedia, music and poetry.” The citation goes on to note that the company has “added to the awe-inspiring cultural landscape of our Borough and beyond.”

Working with this company can be one of the most thrilling and satisfying times of a young artistic career. This is due in part to Satellite’s unique approach to collaboration, engaging a wide spectrum of art forms toward a single purpose, cross- pollenating disciplines in a way that is unique, even, according to the New York Times “peculiar.” But it is also due to the fact that Satellite Collective dedicates such an enormous percentage of its operating budget to fairly compensating the artists.

Satellite Collective formed in 2010, with members of the New York City Ballet, visual artists, writers, and composers from across the country. Since then, Satellite has produced twelve seasons of multi-disciplinary work in New York City and in Michigan, where our summer residencies are held.