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Blakeley White Mcguire (b. South Louisiana, USA) lives and works in Manhattan, New York. She is an interdisciplinary artist and dancer working in contemporary performance and creation, and historical documentation through writing, filmmaking, and teaching. She has received international critical acclaim, including the prestigious Positano Premia La Danza Award for Contemporary Dance, as Principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company where her repertory included Lamentation, Rite of Spring and Errand into the Maze.

Blakeley has received commissions from: The Museum of Arts and Design, Dancing Human Rights (Oxford University, U.K.), Danza en Arte Pietrasanta, Italy, Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/OUT Festival, The Ailey School, Movement Migration, and the Martha Graham Dance Company among others. Her collaboration C.A.V.E.S. with Daniel Fetecua Soto has generated choreographic commissions from Buglisi Dance Theater (embodying the International Declaration of Human Rights), Ballet Metropolitano de Medellín and the New York Office of Art and Special Projects. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and is an official stager of Martha Graham’s masterworks. Blakeley’s first book, The Martha Graham Dance Company: House of the Pelvic Truth, was released by Bloomsbury Publishing UK in 2022. She is currently a faculty member of The Ailey School/Fordham University, Hunter College, City College of New York, LaGuardia High School, and a Lincoln Center Teaching Artist. She was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Loyola University Chicago in 2021 and is currently a Fulbright Specialist in Dance.