“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.”
- Merce Cunningham
CLAIRE BINGUIT, from Canton, MI, holds a BA in Dance from Western Michigan University, where they performed works by Seyong Kim, Kelsey Paschich, and Penny Saunders. They were a member of the school’s traveling student company, Western Dance Project, under the direction of Kelsey Paschich. In 2023, Claire moved to Chicago, dancing at Visceral Dance Chicago as a trainee under the direction of Cait Cucchiara, performing works by Braeden Barnes, Mónica Cervantes, Tina Diaz, and Nick Pupillo. Claire also works with Symbiosis Arts under the direction of Braeden Barnes. Claire joined DanceWorks Chicago in September 2024.