Maureen Fleming American (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performance Artist) was born in Japan. At the age of two, she was in a serious car accident with her mother. The effects of the experience, both physical and emotional, have formed a thread through Fleming’s life and influenced, if not driven, her devotion to the study of physical movement. In her multi-media performances, Fleming invents surreal movement poetry with the discipline of a classicist and the imagination of an iconoclast and explores through metaphorical images our never-ending search for what is universal about the journey of the soul.
Maureen Fleming is the Artistic Director of Maureen Fleming Company and has created evening length works After Eros (1997) Decay of the Angel (2004) and Waters of Immortality and Other Works (2007). Fleming’s evening length multi-media works include collaborations with playwright David Henry Hwang, composer Philip Glass, sound designer Brett Jarvis and light and visual designer Christopher Odo. Spanning five continents these works have been performed in venues ranging from a Catholic church built in 1000 AD in Palermo, Italy to the historic Jacob’s Pillow Festival to New York City Center Fall for Dance.
The goal of my work is to reveal the transcendent through images which focus on the human body as a vehicle of transformation. I am specifically interested in finding a universal art which touches the evolutionary traces imbedded in human experience and transcends the limits of nationality and gender, placed on us all in an aim of discovering what is truly universal about being human.
Tagged: After Eros, Butoh, Christopher Odo, David Henry Hwang, Decay of the Angel, Fall for Dance, Kazuo Ohno, Maureen Fleming, Maureen Fleming Company, multi-media, New York, Philip Glass, Soul, Waters of Immortality and Other Works
