Performance Projects

Photo of Kym, a light-skinned/white femme person with short dark hair. She is wearing a black shirt and shorts. She kneels at her installation at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She focuses on plugging and unplugging extension cords that control different lights connected to the installation.

Shadows in Summerland directed by Ashley Brett Chipman. (2016, 2min, Super 8 to HD). Book Trailer for Adrian Van Young's novel SHADOWS IN SUMMERLAND (ChiZine Publications, April 2016). Link to website.

Script Scores, choreography and performance by Kym McDaniel (left) and Chloe Nagle (right). Two white appearing female bodies lay next to one another on a mattress. A thin white sheet covers them. They stare at one another.

Script Scores (2022). Two light skinned / white female bodies lay next to one another on a mattress. A thin white sheet covers them.

Unfurling directed by Hannah Hamalian (2019, 4:26min, HD). A girl leaves her path in order to find belonging in wilderness, learning that to be grown up is to accept vulnerability. Link to website.

Crip/Mad Archive Participatory Workshop at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, May 2023. A diverse crew of femme and non-binary people with disabilities standing arm in arm in community alongside Petra Kuppers, the organizer of the event. Petra, on her scootie, is in the middle of the performers she has brought together. We all look at the camera, smiling vibrantly. Link to Petra’s website.

A performance collaboration with the National Park Services at Roosevelt Island, New York City, May 2023. A diverse crew of people with disabilities standing, sitting, and leaning on the statues of Franklin Roosevelt in his wheelchair reaching out to a young girl with arm braces. We all look at the camera, smiling vibrantly.

Billy directed by Zachary Epcar. (2019, 8min, 16mm to HD). The reenactment of a scene from a primetime soap opens this domestic psychodrama, an anxious look into the horrors of interior decoration and the boundless entanglement of things. Link to website.

Kym, a light skinned / white female wearing a beige turtleneck and taupe pants, dances outside. Her arms extended, one arm towards the bright white snow and the other extended behind her. Her face is covered by a large pine tree laden with snow.