Performance

I am a sick and disabled dance artist whose work emerges out of my embodied experience of chronic illness and pain. My creative practice is deeply connected to and informed by the disability arts and culture movement and the development of “disability aesthetics,” a term used by disabled artists to articulate the particular ways that disability appears in the content, form and process of our work.

Maggie stands in front of an ornate brown radiator wearing a light blue nightgown and grey socks. She faces right, bending her back knee and letting that hip drop. A blue heating pad lays on the floor in front of her, the cord circling around her.

Radiate (ongoing)

An ongoing, iterative process and project, Radiate explores the mundanity, humor and time-bending experience of pain and care. Working across video, craft and movement, this piece invites audiences to make themselves comfortable in the artist's home as she continually traces deeply worn pathways, seeking warmth and relief.

An aerial shot of for dancers laying on the ground with a patchy, colorful, knit blanket. The dancers each wear black, their faces obscured by the frame, colorful masks, or the blanket.

Scale (2023)

Using the pain scale as a primary source material, Scale places medicalized methods of quantifying pain in conversation with alternative ways of reading and attending to pain emerging from the disability community, ultimately proposing new ways of caring for the bodymind in dance.

Maggie and Mia dance in a light grey gallery wearing matching light blue., flowing outfits. They each reach one arm out toward each other, palms facing each other's arm. Maggie curves forward, Mia stretches out.

What I Know About Solid Comfort(2023)

Using the Cripple Chair as our inspiration, we reflect on gendered, radicalized, and classed lineages of (dis)comfort, stillness/movement, and care in the disability community.

Sam, a black dancer, stands in front of Robby, a black dancer in a wheelchair. They each reach their right arm up in a long diagonal, looking toward that hand, their bodies stretching towards the diagonal. They wear blue jumpsuits with orange circles

Pending (2021)

Pending explores the anticipatory moment before the onset of pain through a combination of improvisational scores and set movement. This piece was developed in collaboration with the dancers and Chicago area blind and disabled sound artist, Andy Slater.

In an industrial room, Maggie stretches one arm out beyond her head and raises one leg behind her, causing her torso to bend forward. She wears red overalls, yellow socks, a black shirt, and a black and gold windowed mask.

Close Across (2022)

Close Across is an experiment in access, flexibility and care, enacting a disability-informed, covid-safe method of dancemaking and imagining a future where disabled knowledges guide the practice of creating dance.

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