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. Crafting with instant composition improvisational prompts remains the incubator of my devising practice---emboldening performers to experiment with their performativity in real time through a loose container and expansive imagining. When not dancing/creating, she is a fiberwear artist, loves to be outdoors with their dog, and has a deep interest in music + film.

She performs, teaches, and choreographs throughout Chicago and nationally. Her Chicago 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 weekly open classes at The Rooted Space.

Her individual movement practice involves study of solo/group 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 forms, including instant composition, Flying Low, physical theater character work, and vocal improvisation; all of which now inform and inspire her current teaching and creations.