Gina Hoch-Stall is a Chicago-based choreographer, performer, and educator whose work moves between choreography, improvisation, and audience co-creation. Interested in the possibilities and complications of being together, she creates performances in which movement becomes a way of negotiating relationships, sharing agency, and making decisions in real time. Her most recent work, between us and everyone here, created with performers and collaborators Amanda Maraist and Chrissy Martin, explores the familiar comforts and complications of a long-term friendship. Combining precise choreography with unruly improvisational scores, the performance invites audiences to influence and redirect the action. Presented at the Neo-Futurists in Chicago in July 2026, between us and everyone here was described by See Chicago Dance reviewer Tristan Bruns as a work where “dancers, collaborators, and the audience become a collective.”
Hoch-Stall was the founding Artistic Director of RealLivePeople, a contemporary dance theater company she led from 2010 to 2020. She has created, produced, and toured original work throughout the United States and internationally, with presentations at the Cleveland Dance Festival, Ponderosa Tanzland in Germany, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and other venues. Her work has received support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Puffin Foundation, and others. She received a 2022 Individual Artist Program Award from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
As a performer, she has worked with artists including Bebe Miller, Ann Carlson, Emily Johnson, Kim Brandt, and Khecari. Her performance credits include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Kohler Arts Center. She teaches at Loyola University Chicago, where her courses have included contemporary technique, ballet, improvisation, dance kinesiology, and dance history. Beyond performance and pedagogy, she works as a dramaturg, facilitator, and Embodiment Coach, supporting artists and groups through creative processes, embodied experience, and difficult conversations. Across these fields, her work is informed by a longstanding interest in the relationship between movement and human behavior. She holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, where she was a Dean's Distinguished Fellow, and a BFA in Dance and BA in Psychology from Temple University.