PC: Gabriela Chavez

Maggie (she/they) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist who works collaboratively and thrives in multi-media performance spaces. She creates visually arresting worlds, whose movement straddles the spectrum between bold washes of complexity and sensitive, detailed, individualized expression. Instant composition group work remains the heart of her devising practice. Emboldening performers to experiment with their performativity in real time through structured tasks and expansive imagining.

She performs, teaches, and choreographs throughout Chicago and nationally. Her Chicago performance collaborations include work with Erin Kilmurry, The Seldoms, Amalia Wiatr Lewis, Fever Dream Dance Collective, Tina Diaz, Deandra Alaba, Braden Barnes, and Sarah Stern. She is an Adjunct instructor at Northwestern University, and a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago, along with teaching a weekly open class at The Rooted Space.

Her individual movement practice involves study of solo improvisation, floor work techniques and Bartenieff somatic research. Before Chicago, she earned her BFA from London Contemporary Dance School (The Place) and her MFA in the VERVE program at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Throughout both she studied a wide breadth of techniques and improvisation including instant composition, Flying Low, physical theater character work, and vocal improvisation; all of which now inform and inspire her current teaching and creations.