Maggie Segale

Bio

Maggie Segale (US 1991) is an artist working in modes of dance and performance, presently researching somatics of the ocular and the imaginary. Maggie’s work with longtime collaborator Cally Spooner is currently exhibited Overgaden in Copenhagen, DK, a 44-minute film entitled DEAD TIME (Maggie’s Solo) August 25-October 28, 2023. Her audio work is also currently exhibited at Cukrarna in Ljubljana, Slovenia Dancing Still Life on a Single Breath, with Spooner October 19- December 31, 2023. Maggie is passionate about vocal performance, and choreographs for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Women’s Glee Club.

Maggie is a graduate of The Juilliard School (BFA 2014), where she performed the works of Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, José Limón, and many others. Maggie was a member of the 2022 cohort of Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, PT. There, she studied with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Bojana Cvejić, Michael Marder, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Manthia Diawara, and many more.

Maggie received a graduate fellowship from The Juilliard School for ArtFull, publishing mixed media interviews of dancers on the topic of self-image, 2014-2016. Maggie performed Merce Cunningham’s 1965 work How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run at Boston Summer Stages, 2012. She danced with David Parker’s The Bang Group, 2017-2018, and Helen Simoneau Danse, 2018. Maggie has worked as a close collaborator with artist Cally Spooner internationally since 2016, working in the capacities of performer, researcher, régisseur, and co-choreographer in such contexts as: Centre Pompidou, FR; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE; King’s College of London, UK; Overgaden, DK; Institute for Contemporary Art, Singapore; The New Museum, US. Maggie has been a guest lecturer at in the visual arts department of IUAV, Venice, IT; and at Kunstraum Leuphana University Lüneburg, DK. She worked as a performer in the work of artist Irena Haiduk and choreographer for artists Erica Love and João Enxuto’s project Film for People, 2023. Maggie’s own choreography has been shown at Lincoln Center and Judson Memorial Church, NYC. She received funding from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts, 2023. Maggie has taught extensively in the dance department at The Putney School, VT 2017-2021, was on faculty at Irvington High School, NJ 2020-2021, and teaches open contemporary movement classes at many dance schools internationally. Maggie is currently TA for Dance 100 at UIUC, and next semester will teach Partnering.