PC: Gabriela Chavez

Maggie (she/they) is a Chicago-based dance artist who works collaboratively and thrives in multi-media performance spaces. They create visually arresting worlds, whose movement straddles the spectrum between bold washes of athletic complexity and sensitive, individualized details. Their devising practice centers on instant composition and embodiment — inviting performers to engage in real-time decision-making through movement, sound, space, and presence. Maggie’s work blends bold athleticism with nuanced, individualized detail and foregrounds process as much as product.

Chicago collaborations include work with Erin Kilmurry, The Seldoms, INSEKTA, Fever Dream Dance Collective, Amalia Wiatr Lewis, Tina Diaz, Deandra Alaba, and Braden Barnes. Maggie has devised original works for Steppenwolf’s LookOut series, SANCTA, and Northwestern’s Danceworks concert. She is on faculty at Northwestern University and College of DuPage, and a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago, as well as teaching weekly classes at The Rooted Space.

They earned their MFA from the VERVE program at Northern School of Contemporary Dance and their BFA from London Contemporary Dance School (The Place). Both programs provided an exposure and concentrated study of instant composition, Flying Low, physical theater character work, and vocal improvisation, all of which now inform and inspire her current teaching and creations.