Contemporary Dance Classes
Chloe has 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 an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and a certified 200 Hour Yoga Instructor.
Chloe Nagle teaches Contemporary dance classes to professional and recreational adult dancers. Through improvisation and creative tasks, dancers engage in an embodied investigation of the dynamic relationships between somatic practice, creative process, dance lineage, and personal expression. Chloe’s dance phrases leave space for exploration of musicality, expansion and contraction, rise and fall. Dancers are challenged with a variety of movement qualities; from sharp, abandoned floorwork to slow methodical across the floor sequences. She aims to teach classes that are fun, challenging, and encouraging.
As an educator, Chloe works to create classes that are inclusive and accessible. She wants to create a classroom environment in which participants feel seen and heard, that promotes engagement, collaboration, creativity, student agency, and curiosity. Her current research interests include becoming a trauma-informed teacher and person, care economies, and being in community.
She has taught dance, yoga, and Alexander Technique to a diverse student body in community and academic settings. Her teaching experiences include: college-level courses in Contact Improvisation, Introduction to Dance, and Making Dances; Improvisation and Contemporary Dance at Zenon Dance School for the Minneapolis dance community; Alexander Technique for Singers, Dancers, and Actors at the Ordway Center for the Fellows of the Green Room program; yoga and creative dance to seniors, memory care residents, and as part of the Move MS program; as well as Contemporary Dance to youth ages 10-18 at Urbana Fine Arts Center.
Previous Classes
Dance for Camera Workshop: The Choreographic One-Take
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point // April 22nd, 2022
Co-taught by choreographer and filmmaker, Kym McDaniel, and choreographer, Chloe Nagle.
Workshop included an introduction to the one-take film, choreographic filming techniques, dance for camera history, discussion, feedback, and improvisational experimentation. Students from dance and film departments paired up for an hour of collaboration, choreography, and filming. The choreographic one-take collaborations screened at the end of the four hour workshop.
Glow
Performed in the Zenon Dance School Spring 2023 40th Anniversary Showcase in the TEK BOX theater at the Cowles Center for the Performing Arts
Choreography: Chloe Nagle with contributions from the dancers
Performed by Zenon Dance Zone Dancers: Río Saúl García Ramírez, Sarah Brennecke, Athena Carlson
Music: "Light within Light" and "Tundra Roll" (feat. William Parker and Hamid Drake) from the album Black Cherry by Organic Grooves
Program Notes: I'd like to thank the dancers for their time and unwavering commitment to this process. It was exciting to explore dynamic shifts of energy, dramatically sensual and driving movement qualities, as well as presence with lively and joyful artists!
Photos by Jayme Halbritter