History
Selected Engagements |
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| 2024 | The Alchemist’s Veil, premiere Ellen Stewart Theatre, La MaMa ETC, NYC, 2024 |
| 2023 | Yantra, South Korea Artist Residency, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul |
| The Alchemist's Veil Encounter, Pumpkin Hollow Arts Center, Oneonta, New York | |
| Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion, Irish Arts Center NYC, 2023 | |
| 2022 | Artist Residency, Áras Éanna Arts Center, Inisheer, Aran Islands Ireland |
| Axis Mundi, Vimeo: On Demand Release Date Sept 17 Maureen Fleming | |
| 2021 | Dances from Home Installation-Live Performance, Maureen Fleming Studio, NYC |
| Dances from Home Installation-by appointment, Maureen Fleming Studio NYC | |
| 2020 | Earth Goddesses, STELLAR On Demand |
| 2019 | Wildflowers, A Feminine Genesis, The O'Shaughnessy: Women of Substance, Twin Cities, MN |
| O Black Madonna Photography Installation Riga Performance Art Festival: Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia | |
| B. Madonna, Riga Performance Art Festival Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia | |
| 2018 | Wildflowers, A Feminine Genesis, Áras Éanna Arts Center, Ireland |
| Wildflowers, A Feminine Genesis, La MaMa/Irish Arts Center, NYC | |
| 2017 | Residency, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland |
| B. Madonna, Global Arts Live/ICA, Boston, MA | |
| 2016 | Residency, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland |
| Photography Installation, Sacatar AIR, Itaparica, Brazil | |
| 2015 | B. Madonna, Women of Substance Series, O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Paul, MN |
| 2014 | Black Madonna, FILO Festival, Brazil |
| 2013 | Black Madonna, La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre, NYC |
| 2012 | Waters of Immortality, NPN Performing Americas Tour: Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay |
| 2011 | Black Madonna - Honoring Ellen Stewart, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Ansan, South Korea, 2011 |
| Black Madonna, Cleveland Museum of Art -VIVA! Series, Ohio | |
| Dialogue of Self and Soul, Teatro San Nicolò, Spoleto, Italy | |
| 2010 | Waters of Immortality, Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta, NY |
| “To a Child Dancing in the Wind,” Kazuo Ohno Studio, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Residency, Seoul Institute of the Arts, South Korea | |
| 2009 | Waters of Immortality, Cleveland Museum of Art -VIVA! Series, OH |
| Dances from Home Installation, LaMaMa LaGalleria, NYC |
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| Waters of Immortality, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Dancing on Deathless Feet, University of Cincinnati CCM, Cincinnati, OH | |
| “Dancing on Deathless Feet,” Brown University/RISD, Providence, RI | |
| Waters of Immortality, Mercado Cultural, Salvador Brazil | |
| 2008 | Axis Mundi, The Sphere, The Stairs, Dialogue of Self and Soul, Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket, MA |
| Waters of Immortality, Seoul Institute of the Arts, South Korea | |
| The Stairs. Symphony Space, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | Waters of Immortality, Institute of Contemporary Art, World Music-CRASHart, Boston |
| Waters of Immortality, Flynn Center for the Perfoming Arts, Vermont | |
| Waters of Immortality, Kaatsbaan Int’l Dance Center, Tivoli, NY | |
| 2006 | Residency, Dance Federal University, Bahia, Brazil |
| Residency, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY | |
| 2005 | Residency, Dance Federal University, Bahia, Brazil |
| Residency, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY | |
| Axis Mundi, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| Axis Mundi, Vancouver International Dance Festival 2005, Vancouver, BC | |
| Axis Mundi, Oglethorpe University, Conant Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, GA | |
| Decay of the Angel, FILO, Festival International de Londrina, Teatro Ouro Verde, Londrina, Brazil | |
| Decay of the Angel, Mostra Internacional de Teatro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Residency, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY | |
| Residency, Fulbright Residency, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia | |
| Decay of the Angel, XXVII Internacional Festival de Teatro, Teatro Los Fundadores, Manizales, Colombia | |
| Residency, Trinity/La MaMa Program, NYC, NY | |
| Decay of the Angel, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, New York | |
| Axis Mundi, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York | |
| Decay of the Angel, Mercado Cultural, Castro Alves Theater, Bahia, Brazil | |
| Annual Meeting, National Performance Network, Miami, Florida | |
| 2004 | Decay of the Angel, 5-College Residential Arts Residency, Amherst, MA |
| Decay of the Angel, Emerson Majestic Theater, CRASH ARTS, Boston, MA |
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| Axis Mundi, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia |
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| Axis Mundi, 2004 Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver, BC | |
| Axis Mundi, Oglethorpe University, Conant Performing Arts Center, Atlanta, GA | |
| Decay of the Angel, La MaMa ETC, New York, NY |
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| Residency, Trinity/La Mama Performing Arts Program, New York, NY | |
| Decay of the Angel, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY | |
| Axis Mundi, Dance Federal University, Bahia, Brazil | |
| 2003 | Artist Residency, Cowles Visiting Artist Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| Axis Mundi, Barbara Barker Theater, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
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| After Eros, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY |
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| After Eros, Italy: Spoletino Festival | |
| After Eros, XXV Festival Latinoamericano, De Teatro De Manizales |
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| After Eros, Danza Contemporanea Medellin 2003 Medellin and Barranquilla, Colombia |
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| Residency, Trinity/La MaMa Residency, NYC | |
| After Eros, International Festival of Korea, Seoul, Korea |
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| After Eros, Flynn Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT | |
| Annual Meeting, National Performance Network Conference, Chicago, Il |
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| The Sphere, The Stairs, Upstream, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY |
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| 2002 | Axis Mundi, Austin Arts Center, Hartford, CT |
| NPN Creation Residency, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati OH |
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| After Eros, Emerson Majestic Theater, Boston, MA | |
| Womb Mandala, Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Decay of the Angel, Kyoto Arts Center, Artist in Residence Program, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Residency, University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Dance Division, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Decay of the Angel, Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Residency, Trinity La–Mama Residency, NYC | |
| After Eros, IV Mercado Cultural. Salvador–Bahia, Brazil | |
| 2001 | NEA Japan–US Creative Artist Residency, Japan |
| Axis Mundi, To a Child Dancing in the Wind, Kazuo Ohno Studio, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Decay of the Angel, Saison Foundation, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Axis Mundi, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY | |
| After Eros, Teatro Jorge Elicer Gaitan, American Embassy, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| Mother and Child - 50, Medellin, Colombia | |
| Residency, Trinity/LaMaMa, NYC | |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC | |
| After Eros, The Carolina Theater, NPN Artists Presenters Conference, Durham, North Carolina | |
| 2000 | After Eros, Main State Theater, UC Santa Cruz, CA |
| After Eros, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland | |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC | |
| After Eros, Jarson–Kaplan Theater, Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati OH | |
| After Eros, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN | |
| Residency, Trinity/LaMaMa, NYC | |
| Residency, The Juilliard School Residency, NYC | |
| After Eros, Dorothy U. Dalton Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI | |
| After Eros, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Dance on Camera Festival - Mother and Child | |
| 1999 | The Changing Role of Art in Society, The Juilliard School, Dance Division, NYC |
| After Eros, Colorado College, Colorado Springs | |
| Medellin, Colombia, 99 Festival | |
| Bogotá, Colombia, 99 Festival | |
| Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago | |
| The Sphere & Mandala, Franklin & Marshall College, PA | |
| After Eros, Bucknell University, PA | |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Art | |
| The Stairs, Axis Mundi, Mandala, Pine Lake Environmental Center Performing Arts Series Delaware County, NY | |
| After Eros, Babson College, MA | |
| After Eros, Oldenburg Internationale Ballett-Tage, Germany | |
| 1998 | After Eros, The Kitchen, NYC |
| Residency, Five College dance Dept. | |
| Axis Mundi, U of Mass, Amherst, MA | |
| After Eros, Spoleto Festival, Italy | |
| Tara, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| After Eros, 98 Festival, Medellin, Colombia | |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC | |
| Residency, Juilliard School Dance Division, NYC | |
| 1997 | Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts |
| After Eros, Palermo di Scena International Festival, Italy | |
| Pennsylvania Presenter Conference | |
| Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY) | |
| After Eros, La Casa Dei Doganieri, Bari, Italy | |
| After Eros, Tollwood Festival, Munich, Germany: | |
| After Eros, MIMOS '97 Festival, Irkutsk, Russia | |
| Residency, Trinity/La MaMa | |
| After Eros Encounter, Orensanz Foundaiton, NYC | |
| Zoellner Arts Center, PA | |
| 1996 | After Eros, Pittsburgh Dance Council |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts | |
| After Eros, Franco Parenti Theater (Milan, Italy) | |
| Eros, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Iceland | |
| After Eros, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance project NYC | |
| After Eros, Maison Des Cultures du Monde, Paris | |
| Italy: La Casa Dei Doganieri (Bari) | |
| Eros, International Mime Festival, Perigueux, France | |
| 1995 | Eros, Spoleto Festival,Italy |
| Eros, Jose Limon Dance Festival, Mexico | |
| Axis Mundi, First San Francisco Butoh Festival shared evening with Akira Kaisai |
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| Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY) | |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts | |
| Philadelphia Museum | |
| Ohio State University | |
| The Sphere, Ballet Met (Columbus, OH) | |
| Eros, with David Parsons, New Arts Festival, Fort Myers, FL | |
| 1994 | Il Paradiso, Teatro Ariosto,Change Performing Arts, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| Residency, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC | |
| Eros, Dance at the Edge, Baltimore, MD | |
| Axis Mundi, Cleveland Performance Art Festival | |
| Axis Mundi, Encuentro International, Venezuela: | |
| Axis Mundi, Bates Dance Festiva, Lewiston, ME | |
| Il Giardino Delle Delizie, Milano d'Estate International Festival, Italy | |
| 1993 | Sphere, LaMaMa E.T.C., NYC |
| Residency, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY | |
| Eros, Movement Theater International , Philadelphia, PA | |
| Eros, Milan Oltre Festival, Italy | |
| Eros, International Festival Voyage a Roma, Italy | |
| Modena Bosch Festival, Italy | |
| 1992 | Eros, Cleveland Performance Art Festival |
| Residency, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY | |
| Eros, Pittsburgh Dance Council | |
| 1991 | Eros, Axis Mundi, Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY) 1991-1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 |
| Eros, a shared evening of solo performance with Yoshito Ohno, LaMaMa E.T.C., NYC | |
| 1990 | Water on the Moon, Community Education Center, Philadelphia, PA |
| Axis Mundi, 1990 Butoh Festival, Tokyo, Japan *organized by Akiko Motofuji (wife of Tatsumi Hijikata). These three days of performances and presentations of rare films by Tatsumi Hijikata involved performances by Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Min Tanaka and numerous others. Maureen Fleming performed her original work 'Axis Mundi' and was the only foreigner invited to perform in this memorable event. Tears fell on both sides of the stage. | |
| Eros, Dance at the Edge (Baltimore, MD) | |
| 1989 | Water on the Moon, LaMaMa E.T.C., NYC |
| Water on the Moon, John Drew Theater, South Hampton, NY | |
| 1988 | Axis Mundi, Creative Time, NYC |
| 1983 | Spirit Walk, NYC |
| 1979 | In Honor of the Child, Henry St Settlement, NYC |
Letters of Recommendation |
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Grants and Awards |
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| 2024 | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC |
| New York State Council on the Arts, NYC | |
| Gilman Foundation, NYC | |
| NYC Department of Cultural Affairs | |
| 2021 | Guggenheim Fellowship, NYC |
| US Patent: US 10888485B2, Exercise Device, Fleming Elaxtxx | |
| New York Foundation for the Arts/City Artists’s Corps, NYC | |
| 2020 | Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund |
| 2019 | Culture Ireland |
| Fulbright Latvia | |
| 2017 | Fulbright Ireland |
| Irish Arts Council, Ireland | |
| 2016 | Fulbright Ireland |
| USArtists International | |
| 2015 | National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works |
| 2013 | National Endowment for the Arts: Art Works |
| O'Connor Foundation | |
| Mertz-Gilmore Foundation | |
| 2012 | NPN Performing Americas Tour: |
| Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay | |
| 2011 | Fulbright Commission - South Korea |
| 2010 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| O'Connor Foundation, | |
| 2009 | USArtists International - Brazil |
| Manhattan Cultural Council - Dances From Home Installation - NYC | |
| 2008 | National Performance Network Community Fund |
| Seoul Institute for the Arts Artist in Residence | |
| 2007 | Fulbright Commission - South Korea |
| National Performance Network Community Fund | |
| Japan Foundation: Performing Arts Japan | |
| Asian Cultural Council | |
| 2006 | Fulbright Commission - South Korea |
| National Performance Network Creation Fund | |
| 2005 | Fulbright Commission - Colombia |
| NYSCA Decentralization | |
| 2004 | National Endowment for the Arts - Creativity |
| Greenwall Foundation | |
| Asian Cultural Council | |
| Sacatar Foundation | |
| 2003 | Performing Americas Tour |
| Fund for US Artists at International Festivals | |
| Cowles Artist Visiting Award, Minneapolis, MN | |
| Japan Foundation-Performing Arts Japan | |
| 2002 | Japan Foundation-Performing Arts Japan |
| Kyoto Arts Center Fellowship, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Fund for US Artists at International Festivals | |
| 2001 | National Endowment for the Arts- Creativity |
| NEA-Japan/US Creative Artists' Commission | |
| Fund for US Artists at International Festivals | |
| Doris Duke Charitable Trust | |
| National Performance Network Creation Fund | |
| 2000 | New England Foundation for the Arts-Touring Grant |
| 1999 | New England Foundation for the Arts-Touring Grant |
| Fund for US Artists at International Festivals | |
| 1998 | Greenwall Foundation |
| Puffin Foundation | |
| Sequoia Foundation | |
| Rockefeller Foundation M.A.P. Grant | |
| 1997 | New England Foundation/National Dance Project |
| Rockefeller Foundation/Multi-Arts Production Fund | |
| New York State Council on the Arts/Decentralization | |
| New York Foundation for the Arts/Performance Art | |
| 1996 | Fund for US Artists at International Festivals |
| National Performance Network Creation Fund | |
| Harkness Foundations for Dance | |
| Sequoia Foundation | |
| New York State Council on the Arts/Decentralization | |
| 1995 | Fund for US Artists at International Festivals |
| National Endowment for the Arts Choreography | |
| 1994 | Fund for US Artists at International Festivals |
| National Endowment for the Arts Choreography | |
| Mid-Atlantic Touring Grant | |
| 1993 | Fund for US Artists at International Festivals |
| 1992 | Meet the Composer/Composer-Choreography Project |
| Mary Flagler Charitable Trust | |
| Harkness Foundations for Dance | |
| Mid-Atlantic Touring Grant | |
| 1991 | Dewar's Profile Performance Arts Award |
| 1990 | New York Foundation for the Arts/Performance Art |
| Mid-Atlantic Touring Grant | |
| Asian Cultural Council Grant | |
| 1980 | Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS) Choreography |
Choreography: The Immortal Rose
Photo: Lois Greenfield