Maggie Bridger

Maggie Bridger (she/her) is a sick and disabled dance and fiber artist, access worker, and scholar interested in reimagining pain through the creative process. Maggie is a 2022 & 2025 City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grantee and has held artist residencies through High Concept Labs, the Chicago Cultural Center's Learning Lab, Synapse Arts, and Chicago Dancemakers Forum. Her choreographic work has been shown at Elevate Chicago Dance 2022, The Art Institute of Chicago, Cottey College (MO), The Steppenwolf Theater Company's LookOut Series, and RedEye Theater (MN), among others. Maggie is a PhD Candidate in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago where she is conducting archival and ethnographic research in service of her dissertation project, Dancing With/in Pain. She is a founding member of Unfolding Disability Futures, Membership & Conference Manager with the Dance Studies Association, a member of Synapse Arts' Programming Committee, and on the organizing committee for the Chicago Dance Studies Working Group.

Photo courtesy of Shawn Guinea