Maureen Fleming Company REGENERATIVE BODY ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP INTENSIVE

MAUREEN FLEMING COMPANY

Regenerative Body Architecture

Summer Workshop Intensive

WHEN: Summer! June 30 - July 6, 2025 l $1000 I Includes: tuition, food & housing, RT transportation from NYC.

Depart from NYC: Sunday 2:00 PM June 29.

Depart Pumpkin Hollow: Sunday 3:00 PM July 6.

WHERE: Pumpkin Hollow Arts Center, Upstate, NY

For questions and more information contact: Phone: 917.575.4969 l Email: Christopher Odo / odochris@gmail.com

www.maureenfleming.com

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Maureen Fleming is an American choreographer and performance artist whose surreal movement poetry ‘gives birth to a new vision of the body.’

Ballet Tanz International, Germany

Pumpkin Hollow Arts Center is delighted to announce a series of movement and dance workshops led by acclaimed New York City choreographer and performance artist Maureen Fleming. The world renowned artist was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship to create new site-specific choreography in Upstate NY, inspired by the paintings of Georgia O' Keeffe and a 'process book' bringing to light her choreography for photography.

In an ecstatic review of her extraordinary performance in B. Madonna, The New York Times said she 'seemed to transcend the material world and enter the world of pure spirit’. The New York Theater Review was equally impressed, suggesting that Fleming ‘continually transcends theatrical expectations and constructs a state of perpetual presence … not unlike the effect of viewing the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls’.

Thanks to many of you, The Alchemist's Veil was presented at La MaMa in NYC to capacity audiences from October 17th -27th, 2024 to both critical and popular acclaim.

This summer, Pumpkin Hollow Arts Center will host a 7-day workshop intensive with Maureen Fleming. The workshop begins on June 30th - Sunday, July 6th, 2024 and is open to everyone. No previous experience is required, but places are strictly limited.

In addition to her work as a dancer and choreographer, Fleming has developed new techniques of regenerative work that improve strength, alignment, flexibility and balance. This video provides a demonstration of FLEMING ELASTXX ® original exercises Fleming has designed to develop efficient movement and increased Mind = Muscle flexibility.

In this workshop intensive, Fleming will also share her ‘inside out’ training that enables you to access deep energetic states to move the body… a completely innovative and pioneering method. She will guide you to your deepest creative core, helping you discover and reveal the transcendent that resides in physical form. Her discipline imbues catharsis and alchemy.

This deep, regenerative inner work allows for a more complete realization of your personal and creative vision and is geared for dancers, directors, actors, singers, butoh enthusiasts, teachers and anyone interested in discovering their movement potential.

YOU WILL LEARN:

– FLEMING ELASTXX® - an original training method that initiates movement and voice from the innermost layer of muscles. Using a patented elastic exercise device, invented by Maureen Fleming, strength and flexibility are developed through the targeting of core muscles, in particular, the psoas.

– THE 10 IMAGES - transformative imagery that helps you move past the physical form and create a useful alignment that can be applied to all movement and vocal training.

– MOVEMENT MASSAGE – power points combined with effective stretching techniques to increase joint flexibility and unlock energy flow.

– HOW TO HARNESS - the body’s movement potential in a daily exercise practice that supports and extends the life of all performance training as well as everyday movement.

Fleming Elastxx® (US Patent 2020)

When the Psoas muscle is strengthened with an awareness of the diaphragm pushing down, the vocal channel can open, creating sustainable and regenerative movement and sound.

The sound can serve as a thermometer for the open internal channel in movement, allowing the practitioner to ‘hear’ the correct alignment. This process can lead to the development of an open and flexible human physical instrument in both sound and movement thus leading to the creation of sustainable movement and voice for performance and daily life.

Images that ‘drive’ the muscle to ‘drive the gravity’ moving up and down the body can aid in this process. Many of the images used by Maureen Fleming can be found in the spiritual writings of the great mystics from Rumi to Yeats to Ohno and also in the great religions of the world.

Maureen Fleming is renowned for her original form of visual theater. With the discipline of a classicist and the imagination of an iconoclast Fleming connects culture and art forms in an interdisciplinary celebration of femininity and the universality of the soul’s journey. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar to Ireland, S. Korea, Colombia, and Latvia her solo and group works have toured 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, Emerson Majestic and Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and NY City Center Fall for Dance Festival.

“She seemed to transcend the material world and enter the realm of pure spirit...wondrous choreographic metamorphosis.”

The New York Times

June 30 - July 6, 2025 l $1000 I Includes: tuition, food & housing, transportation from NYC Depart from NYC: Sunday 2:00 PM June 29

Workshop begins Monday - ends Sunday l Depart: Sunday, July 6 after AM session
Phone: 917.575.4969 l Email: odochris@gmail.com l www.maureenfleming.com

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