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strikethrough 48

Choreography & Text: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Music: Michael Wall
Film & Animation: Jade Lien & Irene Lin
Technical Advisor: Sung-Wei Peng
Producer: Surel's Place

Premiere:
The Common Well, Boise (December 2024)

Description: A solo and performance installation in response to “strikethrough 48,” an erasure poem about ending one’s life in a country flooding with natural beauty but drought-ridden when it comes to services for the mentally ill. 

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Photo by Christina Birkinbine

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Premiere:
iMPACt Center for Art & Dance, SF (July 2024)
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival
, SF (August 2024)

Choreography: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Dancers: Maddy Bullard & Tamara Chu
Music: David Caparó & Laurel Halo 
Animation: Cameron Surh
Animation Dancer: Hiroka Nagai

Description: A duet highlighting the experience of mental illness from both perspectives — to witness and be witnessed within the complexities of a crisis, and the sense of loss that results when there are few directions to turn. With original sound and projection design, the work explores how the incorporation of visual art in performance can enhance the audience’s understanding of the internal conflict of the performer. 

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Photo by Robbie Sweeny

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Scene R-eco-ver | a creative process

Host: The Center at Eagle Hill

Date: March 2024 • Hardwick, Massachusetts

Creative Direction: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Description: An immersive creative process with the students at the Eagle Hill School working with materials as components of nature and the body as a site where nature can be reborn.

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eco-locate | a dance film triptych

Choreography & Editing: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Dancers: Ilektra Arsenidou & Giada Palmisano

Music: David Caparó


Premiere:ESTIA Day Fest, New York (May 2023) Move to Change Dance Festival, New York (November 2023)

Description:  Developed at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Northern California, eco-locate explores the concept of echolocation - the locating of objects via reflected sound - and how it can be applied to a physical communication network. 

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Re-drawn | a movement installation based on live-drawing and chance procedure
 

Choreography: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Performers: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, Lacey Heffernan & BodyLanguage company of Roco Dance

Animation Design: Cameron Surh

Music Composition: Ediale Oriwoh

Premiere: 
Stapleton School for the Performing Arts, San Anselmo (May 2023)

 Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco (December 2023)

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Choreographic Writing Class Series 
w/ Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş 

Host: Shawl Anderson Dance Center

Dates: Sundays 2-4pm PT (in-person)
February  5 - 26, 2023

Description: This workshop series builds on the choreographic score workshop with deeper inquiry into how text-based poetry techniques inform the choreographic process. We will primarily focus on creating choreographic scores utilizing concrete poetry, erasure poetry, ekphrastic poetry, and cinépoetry with optional weekly assignments that provide students an opportunity to invest in personal creative research. 

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Scene R-eco-ver | a choreographic anthropo-scene

Host: World Stage Design | University of Calgary

Date: August 6-16, 2022 • Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Description: A multi-media love letter to California - a new choreographic performance interpreting the climate catastrophes of Northern California in an evolving landscape of paper and projection. 

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Choreographic Writing Intensive Course 
w/ Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
 
Host: Big Sky Workshop

Guest Artist Speakers: Jade Lien & NiNi Dongnier


Date: January 18 - March 10, 2022

Description: In the form of practice-as-research and critical discussion, we will learn through example about the use of the interdisciplinary in contemporary dance and writing practices.


Learn more here 

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strikethrough '21
 
Choreography & Concept: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
 
Text & Animation: Jade Lien

Sound Composition: Michael Wall

Mentorship: Mark Foehringer Dance Project SF |
Emerging Choreographers Forum


Premiere:  
Mark Foehringer Dance Project, Online (April 2021)

SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco (April & July 2021)
Harkness Dance Center, New York (March 2023)
             
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on casting airplanes

Choreography & Text: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Sound Composition: David Caparó

Production: Erin Merritt

Videography: Ainsley Tharp


Premiere: 
Neighborhood Stories, Mill Valley (April - May 2021)
Petaluma Poetry Walk, Petaluma (September 2024)
Art Haus Bar, Boise (November 2024)

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strikethrough
 
Concept: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Code: Troy Kelley
 
Animation: Jade Lien

Sound: Alex MacKinnon

Premiere: The Museum of Wild & Newfangled Art: Opening Show, Online (January - April 2020)

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