Unfolding Disability Futures | Photo Credit: Tara Ahern
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 presents
Cultivating Chicago's Disability Dance Community
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 presents 30 local dancemakers and dance companies from October 13 - 16 as part of the Year of the Chicago Dance.
The festival will take place across four days in six locations and feature staged works, dance on camera, virtual reality, augmented reality, works-in-progress sharings, installation performance, outdoor experiences, and industry conversations.
Maggie Bridger: Cultivating Chicago's Disability Dance Community
October 16, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.- 1st Floor Learning Lab
Chicago Disabled Dance Makers Interview & Performance Video and Dance Film screening “Radiate” presented by HCL Residency Artist Maggie Bridger
Presented by Elevate Chicago Dance Festival in partnership with the Chicago Cultural Center; Produced by High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary
Attendees are welcome to relax and rest at the Learning Lab with soft seating and a short interview and performance video that documents some recent works shown by Chicago disabled dance makers. Maggie and her collaborators develop works with a particular focus on ways that disabled dance artists are developing and sustaining disability dance in Chicago. Also, attendees are invited to add an interactive map of accessible dance spaces in Chicago, which becoming a broadly shared resource for the Chicago dance community.
Maggie starts her Learning Lab residency on October 16; see more upcoming public events on HCL upcoming event page and Learning Lab website.
Unfolding Disability Futures | Photo Credit: Amanda Lautermilch
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.