Chloe Nagle & Kym McDaniel
(Curated Rental)
October 7, 8, & 14, 2022
Join choreographer Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel for a series of programs including performances, screenings, work-in-progress showings and a dance filmmaking workshop at the Red Eye Theater. Performances and screenings premiere October 7 & 8 @ 7 pm, dance filmmaking community workshop on October 8 at 4 pm, and showing on October 14 @ 6 pm. Doors open at 5:30, tickets for purchase at the door. Cash, Venmo, and PayPal are accepted.
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Entrance and Exit Strategies
Friday, October 7, 7pm
Chloe Nagle and Kym McDaniel introduce themselves to the Minneapolis dance community in an evening of experimental film and improvisation scores. After developing debilitating chronic pain from a dance injury, McDaniel created the films entitled Exit Strategies. Over the course of five short films, she questions the intersection between trauma, chronic illness, and healing. Nagle’s improvisation score engages audience participation to explore individual and collective choice-making.
Dance Filmmaking Workshop
Saturday, October 8, 4-6 pm
In this free workshop open to all ages and technical experience, participants will collaborate in pairs to create a one-minute choreographic one-take video, highlighting the choreography of a body in motion. Final one-take projects will be screened at the beginning of The Language of Gesture! Participants also receive free entrance to the evening’s program.
The Language of Gesture
Saturday, October 8, 7 pm
The Language of Gesture is a hybrid film/dance touring program premiering in Minneapolis for the first time. Curated by Kym McDaniel, the films within the program explore artists who use movement and gesture as a means of communication. Featured film and movement artists include Chanelle Lajoie, Terrance Houle, Martine Syms, Ariana Gerstein, A.M. Baggs, and Chloe Nagle.
Work-In-Progress Showing
Friday, October 14, 6 pm
Kym McDaniel and Chloe Nagle premiere an immersive, multimedia collaborative work investigating boundary setting and the body’s relationship with trauma. By creating dance and video improvisation structures with elements of unpredictability, the artists seek to translate how pain shapes interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment.
Contact: kymmcdaniel@gmail.com & chloenagledance@gmail.com
About the artists
CHLOE NAGLE (she/her) is a dance-artist based in Minneapolis. She received an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BFA with honors in Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and yoga instructor.
Nagle’s current research interests include trauma-informed teaching, somatic practice as performance, as well as the challenges and healing possibilities of being in community while embarking on her own recovery from Complex PTSD. Because her work is improvisational, she discovered a personal need to navigate and question the ways in which hypervigilance, dissociation, and intuition appear in her choice-making. Nagle generates scores that interrogate a somatic experience of self, sound, and environment while applying the Alexander Technique concepts of inhibition and “faulty” sensory appreciation to her performance approach. Her choreography has been showcased at the Cowles Center for Performing Arts, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Danceworks Milwaukee, and Milwaukee Summer Series.
Through her performances and teaching, she delights in sharing the creative process with potential audiences to spark enthusiasm, discourse, and respect for creative labor. Infinitely interested in the artistic practices of diverse artists, she has written artist interviews and performance reviews which have been published in online arts magazine, SmilePolitely.
KYM MCDANIEL (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker, media collaborator, choreographer, and performer. Her films have shown at Slamdance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ADF’s Movies by Movers, and selected exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others.
She began filmmaking after a head injury and resulting chronic illnesses asked her to reconsider her relationship to dance and the body. Her process is influenced by her studies in dance, disability, and psychology. She is an AmSAT trained Alexander Technique teacher with research interests in hypermobility and trauma.
She has an Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance & Choreography and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She received an MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently an Advanced Certificate in Disabilities Studies candidate at the City University of New York. She teaches as an Assistant Professor in Screendance within the School of Dance at the University of Utah. Visit kymmcdaniel.com for more info.
Still from Notes on Gesture by Martine Syms
Covid Policy
High-quality masks are required to be worn by audience at all times.