Scale Rehearsal at HCL Studio | Courtesy of the Artist
Maggie Bridger: Scale
Saturday, November 12, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St.(Accessible Entrance) - 1st Floor Learning Lab
In-process showing by HCL Residency Artist Maggie Bridger
All people are invited to but not required to register in advance.
Supported by the Chicago Cultural Center, and High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary
Join us for an in-process showing of Scale, a new dance work by Maggie Bridger and her collaborators, Robby Lee Williams and Alex Neil-Sevier. Scale is a live performance that takes up the discoveries of Maggie’s earlier work wherein she devised a dancemaking process out of her experiences of pain.
Maggie explains, “It directs this embodied practice outward, attending to the ways, both generative and harmful, that we perceive, measure and care for pain in the bodies and minds of others. The primary goal of this work is to push the ways that disability might challenge the assumed norms of dance practice by incorporating values of care and interdependence from the disability community in the creation and presentation of the work, ultimately contributing to Chicago’s long history of disability art.”
During this in-process showing, the artists perform short excerpts from the work, video footage from rehearsals and discuss the process they've undertaken to develop the work.
About the Artist
Maggie Bridger is a 2022 City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grantee, and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Disability and Human Development. She is a co-founder of the Inclusive Dance Workshop Series at Access Living, for which she and her project partner received a 2021 Chicago Area Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. She was part of the inaugural cohort of the Dancing Disability Lab at UCLA, serves on the committee to organize Chicago's integrated dance concert, CounterBalance, and was recently named one of Synapse Arts' 2021 New Works artists. Maggie is a 2022 Artist in residence at High Concept Labs.
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Illinois Arts Council Agency.