Choreography & Dance
My choreography explores relationships - between people, objects, self, and audience. Somatic practice, poetics, improvisation, and intuition are my sources of creative inquiry. What does it mean to listen with and move from the body? This compassionate questioning of habitual ways of knowing, relating and being emerges from my changing relationship with CPTSD.
Shotgun Baby Drunk Animal Jukebox
SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
West Wave Festival 31
January 17th, 2025
Performance & Choreography:
Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
Shotgun Baby Drunk Animal Jukebox is an in-progress solo exploring violence and contradiction in coming of age, female identity and the desire for self-definition, embodiment, and sexuality in rural America.
Was It Good for You?
SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
April 18th & 19th, 2025
Performance & Choreography:
Kym McDaniel & Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
This improvisation score emerges from the question, what is the fastest way to end something? When is an ending a relief? Is an ending an orgasm? What if you can’t get it up? What if you can’t get up off the floor? When is participating a refusal or a resistance…and when will this be over?
An evening of Bay Area performance and interdisciplinary collaboration curated by Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya, ENDINGS emerges as a contemplation of change, loss and possibility. A show-and-tell of works in progress and new premieres, we nod to our mentors, look towards new moves, and embrace being in the midst of something yet unformed.
Script Score
Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
October 14th, 2022
Performance & Choreography:
Kym McDaniel & Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
Video Projection & Text:
Kym McDaniel
Script Scores is an immersive, multimedia collaborative work investigating boundary setting and the body’s relationship with trauma. By creating dance and video improvisation structures with elements of unpredictability, the artists seek to translate how pain shapes interaction with ourselves, other people, and the environment.
If/Then, You/I
Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
October 7th, 2022
Performance & Choreography:
Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
If/Then, You/I is an improvisation score exploring call and response. The work explores individual and collective choice-making through audience participation.
Photography by Erik Gundersen
Gesticulating Ingested Suggestions
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Spectral Microcinema
April 21st, 2021
The Language of Gesture
Curated by Kym McDaniel
Performance & Choreography:
Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
Gesticulating Ingested Suggestionsis an improvisation score exploring biological, kinesthetic, and relational rhythms. Rhythms are established for gestures to emerge and transform.