Chloe A. Schafer (she/her)

Chloe A. Schafer (she/her) is a dance artist, scholar, and educator. Her creative works are understated and whimsical; she asks the audience to lean in and pay attention to the subtle undercurrents of drama, quirk, defiance, and silliness. She is currently exploring her compositional intuition, specifically reimagining her choreographic relationship to femininity and time. Her work has been presented across the Northeast United States, including by WAXworks in Brooklyn, Nacre Dance in Saratoga, The Junction Dance Festival in White River Junction, among others. She was the 2023 ChoreoLab Artist-in-Residence for The Junction Dance Festival, as well as a Guest Choreographer for the Sarah Lawrence Dance Program’s Open Performance. Chloe’s published research investigates aging and dance: their universality, culturally-specific formations, and mobilizing potential. Central in her study is gathering oral histories from aging artists about their ongoing careers and insights into aging and performance. She has presented at several dance conferences, most notably the Dance Studies Association’s Symposia New Mobilities on the turn? and UMass Amherst’s Dance Conference ACCESS: Beyond the Proscenium. Alongside her creative and scholastic work, she continues to teach and choreograph at colleges across New England. Chloe works to cultivate a classroom of joy and possibility, a space for students to gather and grow what they need to be their most embodied and kind selves. She has led workshops on improvisation and composition, and taught semester-long classes in contemporary forms, ballet, creative movement, and yoga. She currently teaches dance and yoga classes throughout the Upper Valley, including bi-weekly classes at Dartmouth College. Chloe holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and received her B.A. in Dance and B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Vermont.