MayaMW: Physical Theater, Film & Poetry, Stasis and MaDLOM.
MAYA MILENOVIC WORKMAN MayaMW
Slovene-American writer, director, choreographer, and former dancer.
" I found a junction across impulse produced by avant-garde jazz music unified with physical theater poetry and film. I believe that improvised sound, which extends into any space, merges with movement in a “collapsed, expanded, and elevated mosaic of possibilities.”
In 2020 I received a Guggenheim fellowship for collaborative work with Reggie Workman (Jazz Master, USA), entitled: “Ophelia’s Ocea (A play on film)
Dos Worlds, www.dosworlds.com (NYC), Ophelia’s Ocean, (NYC 2020/21 - a play on film), I Hear with My Eyes (Slovenia), Guernica Continuum (Slovenia), Virtual Truth (Slovenia). Come and Go, HP Madame (Picasso), Jus Al’ Mae (Picasso), Mother Courage (Brecht), Closed Door (Sartre), Tristan and Isolde (Legend), First Day 47, (Time & Space) Ogun's Ardor (Legend), Footfalls (Beckett), Abstractions (Brecht/Euripides/Bosch), Streams (Debut in NYC), Moon Above Mississippi, (SNG, MB), M&M(SNG, MB), Jocasta (SNG Maribor), Produced and performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, Washington Square Church, Cooper Union Great Hall, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Village Gate, Leighton House (GB), and SNG MB - State Theaters in Slovenia; Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, UK, and Italy. I had the honor to Collaborate with a prominent theater director Tomas Pandur in Scheherazade (One Thousand and One Nights), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Faust (Goethe), and Noah’s Ark (Cultural Capitol, Thessaloniki, Greece).
Artistic/curriculum Director: Montclair Academy & Laboratory of Dance, Drum, and Drama: www.madlom.org (Since 1998)
MA in Media (New School, NYC), BA in Liberal Arts (New School, NYC), NYC. BA, equivalent, London School of Contemporary Dance (UK). Studied modern dance with Merce Cunningham (and June Finch, Robert Kovich, Chris Komar, Diane Frank, etc.). “Multiple intelligences theory” with Howard Gardner (Project Zero, Harvard), Butoh Dance with Amagatsu (Sankai Juku), and graduated as a teaching artist in NYC..
Stasis, Theater & Film Futura, Rhythm of life
A false idea: HAVE A GOOD DAY!
A SQUARE MEMORIAL FOR A MAN
The spectators are embraced in wooden truth They stand in lines across the bridge before it crumbles It all happens again, century after century And when it happens The cavernous spaces evaporate around the corners of a castle perhaps in Denmark, or in Spain. I don’t know. Drafty windows clear the air. They are wrapped in the illusion of senseless depth.
MIRROR IN THE MEADOW
The stretch across the mountain Becomes too hard to bear She had to come back Through painted windows As a shadow of what she thinks that she might want to be. The landscapes are colored with water. At one point she lifts in the air, weightless. He who was here came and left. Built from the blocks and cavernous dirt embraced in wooden truth. You stand in the lines across the bridge. Before it crumbles
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