Faculty & Staff

Headshot of Maggie Costales
Maggie Costales
(she/her/hers)
Lecturer
Dance
Degrees & Accomplishments
Certified Countertechnique® Teacher
B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance Performance from The Boston Conservatory
Biography

Maggie Costales is a New York City-based dance artist, teacher, and dramaturg and earned her B.F.A. from The Boston Conservatory in 2018. She became a certified Countertechnique® Teacher after successfully completing her teacher training in August of 2023. Costales currently teaches Countertechnique® at Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Center, and Mark Morris Dance Center. She has guest-taught at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Adelphi University, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and has been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University. Costales has taught at the FACT/SF Summer Dance Lab, the International Contemporary Masters Workshop, and co-leads bi-annual workshops at Groundworks.Space in upstate New York. Additionally, Costales is an original co-founder of PVMNT alongside Christopher Kinsey and was the company dramaturg from 2018–2024. She is the administrative and production assistant to Joy and Alex Davis (The Davis Sisters) and has collaborated with them since 2019, both in their duet collaborative as well as individual artists. As a freelance dancer and creator, Costales has done projects with Takehiro Ueyama of TAKE Dance, Alexander Davis Dance, and joyproject (Joy Davis), and is currently dancing for Thryn Saxon of SAXYN Dance Works and collaborates with Chicago-based dance artist, Sophie Allen.