Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Megan Mayer - Season 5, Episode 67

Megan Mayer (she/her): I am an award-winning Minneapolis-based artist working with choreography, dance, experimental video and photography. I obsess over transposition, minimalism, mimicry, tenderness, wry humor, loneliness, social anxiety, fake bad timing and exacting musicality. By exposing tiny emotional undercurrents concerning the body, I construct a unique perspective of what dance can be: virtuosity in vulnerability and victory in gesture. Drawn to the edges of the experience of performing: the anticipatory rapid heartbeat before going onstage, and the regretful relief after exiting, my dances often reveal where that switch lives in the body. My work has been generously supported by McKnight Foundation Fellowships in Choreography and through choreographic residencies at the National Center for Choreography (NCC) in Akron, Ohio and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in Tallahassee, Florida. I believe our bodies are resilient, tenacious, intelligent and expressive, and that our days are full of movement choices. I make deeply personal dances that celebrate the people performing them. www.meganmayer.com