Courtney Mackedanz
Chicago, IL
Dance
Courtney Mackedanz is a transdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. Their movement-based performances explore themes of embodied resistance and demonstrations of care within the context of received and embedded choreographic conditions such as algorithmic surveillance, nervous system states or extractive wage labor. Mackedanz's practice incorporates critical research, creative writing, collaborative dancemaking, and visual art experimentations to explore how expanded notions of the choreographic might structure, steer, catalyze, and constrain potentials in movement.
Mackedanz earned her BFA in Performance and Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013 and has since attended residencies and presented work locally, nationally, and internationally.