New / Upcoming
Grit
Steppenwolf Theater LookOut Series
Premier 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 bodies move through tension-filled repetition, playful provocation, and amorphous structures to suggest an emergent collective.
NEW CITY STAGE - DANCE PREVIEW: “Grit” at Steppenwolf 1700
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
