Maureen Fleming Explained

Maureen Fleming is an American dancer, performance artist, and choreographer from New York City. She studied butoh dance in Japan, and was described by The New Yorker magazine as "perhaps the foremost American practitioner of Butoh."[1]

Early life

Fleming was born in Japan and grew up in Yokohama,[2] the daughter of parents in the United States Navy.[3] She was injured in an automobile accident at the age of two, losing the disc between her fourth and fifth vertebrae, which she only learned of many years later.[4] She moved with her parents to the United States when she was three years old, and began dancing at approximately age seven.

Dance career

Fleming studied ballet with Cecchetti method master Margaret Craske (1892–1990), and performed briefly with several New York City-based dance companies. She was first exposed to butoh in 1984 when she met butoh dancer Min Tanaka in New York City, joining his company, Maijuku, for a time. Following this, she studied butoh in Japan with Tanaka, and later with Kazuo Ohno, one of the founders of the art form.

Fleming has performed in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and collaborated in her multimedia works with playwright David Henry Hwang,[5] composer Philip Glass,[6] photographer Lois Greenfield, ikebana artist Gaho Taniguchi and artist Christopher Odo.[7] She has toured with Min Tanaka[8] and pianists Peter Phillips[9] and Bruce Brubaker.[10] She has also performed with the dancer Jean Erdman.[11]

She directs the Maureen Fleming Company, an interdisciplinary performance ensemble.[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Maureen Fleming began creating photography installations in conjunction with her live performances in NYC in 2009.[17] She is known for her original form of visual theater.[18] Fleming has also taught at the Juilliard School and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2022 she had a four-week residency on the Irish island of Inisheer (Inis Oirr), with support from the Guggenheim Foundation, which "allowed her to create a bridge with her own ancestors and her cultural heritage".[19]

Art

Fleming has stated that she attempts to create archetypes in her dances, and described the female nude as a universal artistic image.[20] She has stated that it often takes her ten years to create a new dance.[2]

Awards

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Maureen Fleming was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland[23] 2016 - 2017 at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick and the National University of Ireland in Galway.[24]

References

  1. News: Decay of the Angel . May 29, 2023 . New Yorker . April 12, 2004.
  2. News: Choreographer sets "Eros" in Motion . May 29, 2023 . Boston Herald . March 1, 2002.
  3. Web site: Current Biography, March 2010. Maureen Fleming . 1 March 2010 . 25 December 2023.
  4. Web site: Dancer-choreographer Maureen Fleming to speak at Skidmore. 15 February 2012.
  5. Web site: MAP Fund | Maureen Fleming through the New York Foundation for the Arts. 25 December 2023.
  6. Web site: Maureen Fleming traces Persephone myth in otherworldly 'B. Madonna'. Star Tribune.
  7. Web site: Butoh, the Body, and Perception. 31 October 2013.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . 2017-12-05 . 2017-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171206140212/http://www.lamama.org/archives/2004/DecayoftheAngel.htm . dead .
  9. Web site: Foster . Catherine . Childhood Accident Shapes Choreographer's 'Eros' . Maureen Fleming . 24 February 2002 . 25 December 2023.
  10. Web site: Maureen Fleming mesmerizes in 'B. Madonna' - the Boston Globe. The Boston Globe.
  11. https://www.hatchfund.org/user/maureenfleming Maureen Fleming
  12. Web site: Review. www.maureenfleming.com.
  13. Web site: Maureen Fleming. January 2002.
  14. News: Celestial navigations. Boston.com. 20 February 2004. Sataline. Suzanne.
  15. Web site: Maureen Fleming's butoh is magical and elegant metamorphosis - the Boston Globe.
  16. Web site: NEW ADAGIO: Maureen Fleming.
  17. Web site: Maureen Fleming's Dances from Home Dance reviews, guides, things to do, film - Time Out New York. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135750/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/dance/maureen-flemings-dances-from-home. 2017-12-06.
  18. Web site: About Us . 2017-12-05 . 2017-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171206074610/http://www.hatchfund.org/about/advisory_board . dead .
  19. Web site: Tierney . Ciaran . Maureen is like a child in a candy store on Inis Oirr . Áras Éanna . May 29, 2023.
  20. Web site: Cover Bio from Current Biography Monthly Magazine - March 2010 . https://archive.today/20110716025422/http://searslist.com/currentbio/cover_bios/cover_bio_03_10.htm . 16 July 2011 . dead.
  21. http://worldmusic.org/sites/default/files/Biography_125.pdf Biography
  22. https://s3.amazonaws.com/NYFA_WebAssets/Pictures/6b2ad3f7-2970-4032-9d75-d886c72943cd.pdf Directory of Artists’ Fellows 1985-2013
  23. Web site: Maureen Fleming . Fulbright Ireland-USA . 29 May 2023.
  24. Web site: June 2017 - University of Galway. www.universityofgalway.ie.

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