Hivewild

Founded in 2016 by Artistic Director Katherine Maxwell, Hivewild is a contemporary movement platform based on the unceded land of the Lenapehoking People (Brooklyn, NY). Hivewild is dedicated to the presentation of formal performances, public works, site-specific projects, dance films, and situational encounters. Maxwell aims to use accessible performance work to engage a variety of viewers: artists, art enthusiasts, and those who have yet to experience contemporary dance work.

Hivewild performances feature elements of contemporary dance, gestural movement, and interpretive interplays between speech and sound. Maxwell’s choreographic ethos is grounded in the cyclical nature of relationships, community ecosystems, and the symbioses between humanity and the Earth. Audiences can expect to engage with artistic narrative that is sincere, guttural, earned, and fundamentally rooted in the principles of radical inclusion and lifelong curiosity. Endemic to each Hivewild work, and the processes that create them, are strong senses of dignity, interconnectivity, and playfulness. Hivewild is an invitation to experience, feel, and be – embodying a broader bandwidth of what it means to be alive.