How to Outline Grief

About the Maker

Kym McDaniel (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker, media collaborator, choreographer, and performer. Her films have shown at Slamdance, Antimatter, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ADF’s Movies by Movers, and selected exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others.

She began filmmaking after a head injury and resulting chronic illnesses asked her to reconsider her relationship to dance and the body. Her process is influenced by her studies in dance, disability, and psychology. She is an AmSAT trained Alexander Technique teacher with research interests in hypermobility and trauma.

She has an Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance & Choreography and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She received an MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently an Advanced Certificate in Disabilities Studies candidate at the City University of New York. She teaches as an Assistant Professor in Screendance within the School of Dance at the University of Utah.