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strikethrough 48
Choreography & Text: Maxine Flasher-DüzgüneÅŸ
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)
Tour: New York Poetry Festival, New York (July 2025)
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
ends of Axis
Choreography: Maxine Flasher-DüzgüneÅŸ
Dancers: Maddy Bullard & Tamara Chu
Music: David Caparó & Laurel Halo
Animation: Cameron Surh
Animation Dancer: Hiroka Nagai
Premiere:
iMPACt Center for Art & Dance, SF (July 2024)
FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival, SF (August 2024)
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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Performers: Maxine Flasher-DüzgüneÅŸ, Lacey Heffernan & BodyLanguage company of Roco Dance
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Animation Design: Cameron Surh
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Music Composition: Ediale Oriwoh​
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Work-in-Progress: Stapleton School for the Performing Arts, San Anselmo (May 2023)
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Premiere: Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco (December 2023)
Choreographic Writing Class Series
w/ Maxine Flasher-DüzgüneÅŸ
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.
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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.
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strikethrough '21
Choreography & Concept: Maxine Flasher-DüzgüneÅŸ
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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-DüzgüneÅŸ
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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