HCL Resident Artist Maggie Bridger starts Her Residence at Chicago Cultural Center Learning Lab on October 16, 2022
Maggie Bridger is a sick and disabled dance artist and scholar whose work centers around disabled bodyminds in dance, with a focus on reimagining pain through the creative process. In residence at the Learning Lab, Maggie is partnering with High Concept Labs and local disabled dance artists to develop a pilot program to support and platform Chicago's disabled dancemakers.
Elevate Chicago Dance 2022 celebrates the first day of Maggie Bridger's residence at Chicago Cultural Center Learning Lab, "Cultivating Chicago's Disability Dance Community”. Attendees are welcomed to relax and rest at the Learning Lab with soft seating and a short interview and performance film that documents some of the recent work 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 will become a broadly shared resource for the Chicago dance community.
More public events are coming, visit HCL upcoming events and Learning Lab website to see more.
Unfolding Disability Futures | Photo Credit: Justin Cooper
