ABOUT

MICHAELA NEILD (she/they), is an interdisciplinary artist, dance educator, and nonprofit professional. As an independent artist, Neild is engaged with improvisation and interdisciplinary investigation, community-building, seeking liberation through storytelling and the sharing of space. Neild earned their MFA in Dance and Nonprofit Studies from The Ohio State University and their BFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from SUNY University at Buffalo.

 

While Neild is primarily a dancer, she enjoys infusing her choreography with other visual, video, and installation art mediums. Their choreographic process is experiential, collaborative, and emergent—combining traditional compositional techniques with devising theatre techniques, improvisational games, and chance operation structures. Most often, Michaela enters the creative process by facilitating discussions and experiences that pull a central theme for the creative work out of the people she engages with—viewing the challenges, perspectives, combined talents, cultures, and possibilities that emerge as inspiration.