Margaret Ogas
Teaching Artist & Associate Company Director
She/Her
Margaret Ogas is a choreographer, dancer, and teaching artist based in Saint Paul. She grew up in Milwaukee, WI, and has called the Twin Cities home for the past ten years. Her choreography has been presented by the Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Candy Box Dance Festival, Minnesota International Dance Festival, Center for Performing Arts, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, and others. She recently established Margaret Ogas Performance Project, a dance company emphasizing artistic experimentation with a commitment to highlighting artists of color and queer artists.
Margaret is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and was a 2021 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Her projects have received grant support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. As a dancer, she has performed in works by Taja Will, Pramila Vasudevan, Morgan Thorson, José A. Luis, Laurie Van Wieren, Chris Schlichting and others. Outside of her performance work, Margaret is an arts administrator specializing in fundraising. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.