Margaret Ogas is a choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and arts administrator based in the Twin Cities. Her choreography explores identity, politics, and the caverns of human emotion through a collage of dance, text, and sound. 

Ogas is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and was a 2021 Naked Stages Fellow at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Her work 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. Her projects have received grant support from the the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. 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 has been a core collaborator and performer with the Taja Will Ensemble since 2018. She has performed in works by Pramila Vasudevan, Morgan Thorson, José A. Luis, Laurie Van Wieren, Chris Schlichting and others. She is a teaching artist and associate company director at Young Dance, a dance education nonprofit based in Saint Paul. 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.