Maggie Ogle
Maggie Ogle is a choreographer, dance educator, and researcher currently based in Long Beach, California. As a movement-based artist, she creates work rooted in contemporary dance that explores human cognition, sociological inquiry, and the expressive potential of the unmasked mind. Her choreography has been presented at California State University, Long Beach, Los Angeles Design Festival, SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, Motion Pacific Dance, Purdue University Dance Company, and the American College Dance Association (ACDA), where her work was selected for the 2020 National Gala. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with minors in Dance and Sociology from Purdue University, where she was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. After graduating, Maggie moved to San Francisco, where she developed interdisciplinary works incorporating spoken text and movement to investigate human behavior and social dynamics. Maggie holds her MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. Her research examines how dopamine-related cognitive processes influence choreographic decision-making, with an emphasis on developing inclusive, sensory-responsive pedagogies for neurodivergent communities. Her work challenges ableist norms in dance education and reimagines how ADHD and Autism can inform innovative creative methodologies. In addition to her creative practice, she has been in residence at UC Santa Cruz, served as a teacher-in-residence at SAFEhouse Arts in San Francisco, and frequently teaches as a guest artist at Rio Hondo College. She is a recipient of the Graduate Equity Fellowship (2025) and the Celeste Kennedy Scholarship (2024), and was nominated for the Dean’s Distinguished Thesis Project at California State University, Long Beach (2026).