Maggie Waller is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and currently based in New York City. Heavily involved in the local Hip Hop community, she pulls from various dance forms, such as Waacking, House, Locking, Breaking, Hip-hop, Postmodern Contemporary, and Tap in her performance work, choreography, and freestyle/battle practice. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, a Minor in Justice Studies, and two Certificates in Arts Entrepreneurship and Socially-Engaged Practice in Design and the Arts.
Maggie works at the intersection of arts and activism and is passionate about the power of dance to heal, empower, and connect individuals and communities. As her culminating Honors Thesis, she premiered her first self-produced work, "Reclamation", an evening-length community jam and production. This work explored why women apologize, the ways in which this apology affects how women treat, view, and navigate their bodies in space, and how dance can be the mechanism by which women individually and collectively find joy, power, and liberation. Maggie is currently working to remount this work with an intergenerational cast of dancers and collaborative artists in the NYC area. A long-time dance educator and teaching artist, Maggie has worked within various dance studios, community programs, schools, colleges and universities, theaters, and nonprofit organizations for the past ten years, teaching Hip Hop and Street dance forms and refining her own pedagogy.
Maggie is a current Principal company member with Rennie Harris Puremovement, the longest-running and most internationally-renowned professional Street Dance Theater company in the world. In addition to being a Principal company member, Maggie holds the role of Company Manager, after spending the past three years as the Administrative Assistant and Grant Writer for the company. She teaches at various colleges, universities, middle and high schools, and community centers through Rennie Harris Puremovement’s education outreach while traveling on tour, sharing her knowledge of Hip Hop and Street dance histories, forms, and practice with individuals of all ages, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.
Maggie is a Fulbright Summer Institute Participant, a recipient of the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts, and a published writer in the National Dance Education Organization’s Journal of Dance Education in Practice (“Let Us Be the Pioneers: Creating Art and Cultivating Intimacy During a Global Pandemic”). She is a current resident of Brooklyn, NYC and is so grateful to be writing, moving, and making in her new home. She is continuously looking for new ways to connect with her community and create collaborative, inclusive, important dance and movement work on local, national, and global scales.