About Chloe Nagle Cetinkaya
Photo by Tom Smouse, 2023.
CHLOE NAGLE CETINKAYA (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and writer whose work is centered within the body. She earned an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a certified 200 hour yoga instructor and teacher of the Alexander Technique.
Chloe has taught contemporary dance technique, improvisation, dance composition, yoga, and Alexander Technique to adults and children. Her teaching centers creativity, curiosity, and connection. Her creative practice investigates personal mythology and somatic experience to generate imaginative, visceral performances. Chloe’s work places value on the vitality of inner life and is committed to honoring the forces that drive us towards self-expression, healing, and personal change.
Chloe seeks out collaborative relationships and opportunities. She has created works with choreographer and filmmaker, Kym McDaniel, including co-teaching dance for camera workshops and generating interdisciplinary multimedia performances involving film, projection, dance, and spoken word. Chloe and Kym seek to expand community access to interdisciplinary practices. They center disability studies and feminism in their creative work together.
Chloe writes interviews with artists about their creative process, talks with them about their recent work, and reviews performances. She writes to advocate for the arts; increase the visibility of performing artists; enhance arts access; and deepen relationships with audiences. With a focus on dance and interdisciplinary craft, she’s curious, “how does the artist’s embodied experience inform the work that they make?” You can read current and future articles on her blog, From the Body. Previous articles have been published in online arts magazine, SmilePolitely.
All Photos by Tom Smouse, 2023.
