A Gyrating Rebellion: Comedy, Movement, and her Somatic Response to Culture With Toni Nagy

Free Your Soma with Aimee Takaya

So much of what we experience culturally and what is happening in the larger scope of the world today can feel indigestible. Especially if we seek to handle it mentally. Being able to metabolize the suffering, dysfunction, and pain of the world is better attempted through our whole body and beingness.

Today, I’m incredibly excited to host Toni Nagy, a comedian, and dancer who harnesses the playful power of interpretive dance to navigate deep and often heavy topics with both sincerity and humor.

In this fun and casual conversation, Toni Nagy takes us through:

- Her innovative artistic expression through the comedy of interpretive dance.

- How she discovered the power of movement in a countercultural environment, contrasting with her sports-oriented upbringing.

-How starting dance later in life and being “bad” offered its own benefits

- How she marries interpretive dance with political and social commentary in her comedy routines to create a unique and engaging form of artistic expression.

- How she views the realm of somatics from her unique perspective.

- Her “inner masculinity” and how she channels that into her comedy and as a helpful tool in her personal life...

-parenting tips, astrology snacks, and so much more!

Toni Nagy is a stand-up comedian and content creator most known for her viral videos where she interpretive dances her philosophies while pontificating, gyrating, and questioning culture.

She has 600,000 followers across her social media platforms, not that she's counting or anything. Her comedy is quasi–radical, pseudo-philosophical, somewhat existential, and mostly funny.

Observing Toni’s work is like micro-dosing shrooms, but then an hour later, wondering, "wait... was that actually a macro-dose!?" She's directed and acted in numerous films and written multiple award-winning screenplays, and is the founder of Cavelight Productions. Nagy has performed stand-up at the Comedy Store in LA, Flappers LA, Elysian Theater LA, Greenwich Village Comedy Club NY, the Improv Boston, Laugh Boston, Next Stage Theater Vermont, the Palm Springs Comedy Festival, and the infamous "Sweet" show at the Chelsea Music Hall in NYC.

The Broadway Comedy NYC club twice voted her “Best New Comedian.” She is currently on a national tour performing a two-person multi-disciplinary comedy show with her 13-year-old daughter entitled “Go To Your Womb!” It’s like a PG-13 acid trip you’ll later want to process with your therapist.

She is also on tour with her one-person show “Men, Come Inside of Me,” a comedy show during which she embodies all the men that have come inside of her, both metaphorically and literally. Toni relates to the men that have come inside of her and connects to them on a heart, soul, and genital level. Her effort to uncover these men is entwined with her desire to understand them, as well as herself. Social Media https://www.tiktok.com/@toni.nagy https://www.instagram.com/toninagy/ https://www.facebook.com/toninagycomedy Websites https://www.toninagy.com/ https://cavelightproductions.com/

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