Maho Ogawa is a Japanese born multidisciplinary movement artist working in NYC since 2011. Her work has delved into building a choreographic language based on nuances and isolated movements of the body that she has built a database, “Minimum Movement Catalog“. She uses body, video, text, computer programming, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously.
Ogawa’s works have been shown in Asia at Korea & Japan Dance Festival (Seoul), Za-Koenji (Tokyo), Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo), and at various NY venues including The Invisible Dog Art Center, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Domestic Performance Agency, Industry City Distillery, Emily Harvey Foundation, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and New York University Grey Gallery. Ogawa participated in art residency programs including LEIMAY fellowship, LiftOff, and received art grants from Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Abrons Arts Center, and Arts Council Tokyo, etc. As a performer, she has worked for Ursula Eagly, Athena Kokoronis, Mina Nishimura, Andrea Haenggi, Clarinda Mac Low, Abigail Levine, and collaborations with experimental musicians such as Dafna Naphtali, Tomoko Hojo, and Elliott Sharp. Maho is a 2023 Culture Push Associated Artist.
s – silence Maho Ogawa presents a work for three dancers enacting gestures of the Japanese tea ceremony as choreography. Inspired by John Cage’s “silence”, the gestures are composed with sets of “pauses”, inquiring about what you see when dancers don’t move, providing a meditative spiritual experience for both audiences and performers.
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
All venues are wheelchair accessible.
