performer / improviser / collaborator / Teacher

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. Crafting with instant composition methods remains the center of their devising practice, prioritizing collective imagination, emboldening performers to experiment with their performativity in real time.

Chicago collaborations include work with Erin Kilmurry, The Seldoms, 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 dance department Danceworks concert. She is an adjunct instructor at Northwestern University, College of Dupage, and a guest lecturer at the University of Chicago, along with teaching weekly open 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. When not dancing/creating, she is a fiberwear artist, loves to be outdoors with their dog, and finding new music.