MARGUERITE WALLER
Principal dancer, Administrative & Logistics Manager; is a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. Heavily involved in the local hip hop community, she pulls from various dance forms, such as Waacking, House, Locking, Breaking, Hip Hop, Postmodern Contemporary, and Tap, in her performance work, choreography, and freestyle/battle practice. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, a Minor in Justice Studies, and two Certificates in Arts Entrepreneurship and Socially Practice in Design and the Arts. In addition, Maggie is a Fulbright Summer Institute Participant, a recipient of the Joan Frazer Memorial Award for Judaism and the Arts, and a published writer. She was recently awarded a Queens Arts Fund grant to remount her intergenerational work, “Reclamation,” in Queens, New York City, a project that revolves around women, the body, and movement and dance as a way to heal intergenerational trauma regarding shame and apology. Maggie is a current resident of Brooklyn, NYC and is so grateful to be writing, moving, and making in her new home. She is continuously looking for new ways to connect with her community and create collaborative, inclusive, important dance and movement work on local, national, and global scales. Maggie is deeply honored to be a Principal dancer of Rennie Harris Puremovement, as well as the company’s Administrative and Logistics Manager.