Kat Sotelo
A DEVOTION TO SERVICE
September 26–27, 2025
A DEVOTION TO SERVICE is a new dance piece by Brooklyn-based artist Kat Sotelo that reflects on eroticism and servitude; power and pleasure; Catholic and Filipino identities. Set in mobile peep show booths, the performance blends physical comedy, nostalgic pop, video and choreography from Sotelo’s childhood dance recitals to subvert how power is held within an individual, a culture, and a community.
For sold out shows, a waitlist will begin 1 hour prior to showtime. You must be in person at the Abrons Arts Center to add your name to the waitlist and can request up to 2 tickets.
Showtimes
Image by Elyse Mertz
About Kat Sotelo
Kat Sotelo is a first-generation Filipino American performance artist, choreographer, and set designer whose practice blends movement, satire, and constructed environments. She explores the body as a site of commerce, using her experience in exotic dance to examine fantasy, cultural hybridity, and the labor of spectacle. With roots in film, Sotelo’s compositions also integrate elements of cinema to create layered realities. Her current body of work focuses on eroticism and servitude through a Filipino American lens – at the intersection of nostalgia and melancholy, rage and humor. By weaving video, personal archives, and Philippine folk traditions, she critiques the commodification of art and identity with kaleidoscopic visions. Sotelo is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research and CPR – Center for Performance Research, and a Hybrid Arts Lab Fellow at Theater Mitu. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Funding
A DEVOTION TO SERVICE is presented by Abrons Arts Center and was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded by the Jerome Foundation.
It is also supported, in part, by the CPR – Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence Program, made possible by The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
This project was further developed, in part, through Theater Mitu’s Hybrid Arts Lab and created with support from the GALLIM Moving Artist Residency.