New / Upcoming

Grit

Steppenwolf Theater LookOut Series

March 6th - 8th 2025

Grit is a live dance work that interrogates the underbelly of achievement by exploring the isolating cost of competitive natures amongst four performers. By blurring the lines between exhaustive pleasure and exhaustive pressure, the four performers move through tension-filled repetition, playful provocation and amorphous structures to suggest an emergent collective. 

Concept/Direction- Maggie Vannucci

Performance + Movement Creation Collaborators- Laura Baumeister, Rahila Coats, Kate Laughlin, Hannah Marcus

Dramaturgy + Thought Partner- Courtney Mackedanz

Sound Design + Mixing- Michael Cunningham

Presenters- Steppenwolf Lookout Series

Lookout Series Co-Producers- Lauren Steinberg + Patrick Zakem

Steppenwolf Lookout Production Supervisor- Matthew Chapman

Performance photos: Ricardo E Adame

Sancta 2025

symbiosis Arts

Jully 8-11 & 15-18 2025 / Apply here

Open Class / Collaboration / Performance

Sancta is a 4 day intensive consisting of movement research, improvisation, a collaborative choreographic process, and a live performance for a public audience. Dancers will take daily classes andwork closely with three choreographers to collaborate on a new work performed only at Sancta. Join us in this process where we create an open space for community, investigation, and exploration.

Choreogrpahers SANCTA 2025:

Week 1: Tina Diaz & Braeden Barnes

Week 2: Maggie Vannucci @ Braeden Barnes

Deadline to apply is April 1st

Past Work

Space of Uncertainty

DanceWorks 2024: Emergence at The Writz Center, Northwestern University

A piece about sudden change and shift. We free fall into new realities, relationships, and worlds when the life we knew is pulled out from under us. Constantly changing and adapting, we make it through these sharp changes because of the people we are in community with, relying on each other to recover and see our way into a softer existance.

Made in collaboration with the performance artists

Performers: Sophie Teitler, Eva Kathryn Burkholder, Morgan Dreher, Erin Soko, Katie Hocker, Angel Jordan, Hannah Li, Yitong Zhang, Ariana Ferguson,

Danceworks Production and Direction: Melissa Blanco

Sound Composition/Design: Andrew Perz

Costume Design: Josephine Everett

Lighting Design: Sierra Walker

Stage Direction: Jayce Lewis