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