Maureen Fleming

Maureen Fleming

Fellow: Awarded 2021
Field of Study: Choreography

Competition: US & Canada

Maureen Fleming is renowned for her original form of visual theater realized through choreography for photography, video, and live performance. With the discipline of a classicist and the imagination of an iconoclast, Fleming connects cultures and art forms in an interdisciplinary celebration of femininity and the universality of the soul’s journey.

A Fulbright Scholar to Ireland, S. Korea, Colombia, and Latvia, she has received fellowships from Asian Cultural Council, Japan-US Friendship Commission, Sacatar Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Her evening-length works Eros (1991),

After Eros (1996), Decay of the Angel (2004), Waters of Immortality (2007), B. Madonna (2013) and Wildflowers, A Feminine Genesis (2018-2019) have been presented spanning five continents including the Spoleto Festival in Italy, FILO Festival Brazil, Performing America’s Tour Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay, the O’Shaughnessy Women of Substance Series in St. Paul, Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Global Arts Live: Emerson Majestic and Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Kaatsbaan Intl’ Dance Center, Irish Arts Center, La MaMa, the Kitchen, and NY City Center Fall for Dance Festival. “She appeared to transcend the material world and enter the realm of pure spirit…wondrous choreographic metamorphosis.” –The New York Times

For more information visit her website.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Fellow

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