Ruth Page Center for the Arts presents
Thursday ,October01,2026-10:45 am
Bodies in Process with Jessi Stegall
Ruth Page Center for the Arts presents
Thursday ,October01,2026-10:45 am
Modern / Contemporary
Class
90Running Time
Bodies in Process with Jessi Stegall
Thursday, October 1, 10:45 am-12:15 pm
Thursday, October 8, 10:45 am-12:15 pm
Ruth Page Center for the Arts | 1016 N. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610
Explore new pathways into movement-making through Laban-based studies. Dancers will investigate space, effort, shape, and dynamic qualities to generate improvisational prompts and create brief choreographic compositions. This class offers practical tools for expanding movement possibilities, strengthening creative decision-making, and developing a more distinct choreographic voice.
Come ready to investigate, create, and discover.
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Jessi Stegall is a choreographer based in Chicago, IL. She has been a choreographer-in-residence with Point Park School of Dance, DanceWorks Chicago, Visceral Dance Chicago, Boston Center for the Arts, the National Center for Choreography (Akron), New Dance Partners (Kansas City) Hot Crowd Dance Company, Little Fire Artist Collective, Fever Dream Dance Collective, Harvard ArtLab, National Parks Service, and was featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2022). In 2024, she premiered her first evening-length (65 min) production, “The Theremin Vignettes”, at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA, produced by Global Arts Live. In 2025, she was an emerging choreographer at Springboard Danse in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2026, she will create new works for Whim W’Him Seattle Contemporary Dance and Boykin Dance Project. Jessi’s approach to choreography is guided by ode-making: crafting poetic responses and love letters that honor and amplify the voices and visions that resonate through time. As a dancer, Jessi has performed works by Raja Feather Kelly, Jill Johnson, Ilya Vidrin, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Mariel Pettee, and Jamila Glass. In addition to her work in dance, Jessi holds an M.S. in Bioethics from Harvard University with a focus in Narrative Ethics, a B.S. in Expressive Art Therapy from Lesley University, and is an alumna of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
