about
Maya Gingery is a contemporary dance artist, musician, artist, writer, yogini and arts educator based in Los Angeles, California. She is known for her uniquely expressive dance performances that reflect the influence of postmodern dance, tanztheater, ankoku butoh and noh theatre. In 1989 she began working with Body Weather Laboratory, a movement methodology for exploration of the human body/mind created by Japanese avant-garde dancer Min Tanaka. Her fascination with the form known as butoh led her to Japan, where she met and studied with Tanaka, as well as major butoh artists Kazuo Ohno, Akiko Motofuji and others. In addition to her solo choreography, she is a member of Theatre Nohgaku, a contemporary theatre company that creates and performs new and classical Noh plays in both Japanese and English for Western audiences. From 2000 to 2003 she was an Assistant Professor of Communication at Future University-Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan. Her solo works have been seen in Japan and the US at Asbesto-Kan Tokyo, Highways Performance Space LA, Sushi Gallery, Anatomy Riot, Max 10, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Diavolo Studio, CalArts, Pieter PASD and others. She is also an accomplished flutist on western and japanese flutes. Education/ California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, California/ M.F.A MUSIC 1986 University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California/ B.F.A. FINE ARTS/MUSIC 1982 Works/ 1980/ Indonesian dance performance / C.A.R.L. Center for Acoustic Research, U.C San Diego, California 1981/ "Dances Folles et Sauvages" (original choreography) Music by Nicolas Verin / Performers: Victor Zupanc, Deane and Tom Rettig, Maya Gingery and Suzanne de Montigny / Mandeville Auditorium, University of California, San Diego 1982/ "New Music, New Dance" (show of solo dance) with composer Carl Stone / Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California 1984/ "Vorspielang" (Music theater)by Karklheinz Stockhausen / Flute and Electronics / Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival 1984 1993/ "Soma" (original choroegraphy and musical direction for the multimedia theater work "Soma" / Producer: Joel Shapiro 1994/ "Burning Water" (solo dance) with Kevin Higa, percussion / La Boca Mission, Los Angeles, California 1994/ Workshop group performance /Hakushu Art Festival /Body Weather Farm / Hakushu, Japan 1996/ Noh Training Project Japan Recital, Tokyo, Japan 1997/ Evening of Butoh with Zulu Tsurayama and friends /Asbesto-kan, Tokyo, Japan 1997/"Dancing with Mahler" (solo dance performance) / Dr. Jeekans, Tokyo, Japan 1997/ Noh Training Project Japan Recital / Tokyo, Japan 1998/ "Life in the Present Tense" Solo butoh Performance / Asbesto-kan, Tokyo, Japan 1998/ Solo butoh performances by Maya Gingery and Mia Doi Todd ("What lies between us is not, though it spins"(MG) and “Bound feetand feathered, High-heeled and Horned”(MDT)), KYOZON, Tokyo, Japan 8/30/981998/ "Masked" Solo butoh performance / Johnnie Walker salon / Tokyo, Japan 1998/ Noh Training Project Japan Recital, Tokyo, Japan 1999/ Solo butoh performance / Asbesto-kan, Tokyo, Japan 1999/ Noh Training Project Japan Recital, (shimai) "Yashima"/ Toto-kai Noh Stage, Shin-Koenji, Tokyo, Japan 12/18/1999 2000/ "Bridge" (solo dance performance) / for the opening of Future University-Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan 2000/ Untitled/Solo multimedia dance performance / in collaboration with Tim Gruchy, multimedia artist / Art Harbour Festival, Hokkaido, Japan 2001/ Untitled/Solo dance performance / Namaenashi Gallery / Hakodate, Japan 2004/"Noh Training Project Recital (chorus and shimai ("Kurozuka")/Alvina Krause Theater,Bloomsburg, PA. 9/6/2004 2005/ Untitled Solo butoh performance for the opening of the exhibition "Las Geisha Mermaids" paintings by J.Michael Walker / Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, California 2005/ Noh Training Project Recital (chorus and shimai ("Ami-no-dan") and experimental noh ("The Handless Maiden") / Alvina Krause Theater, Bloomsburg, PA. 9/5/2005 2006/ Butoh performance for the Exhibition "Collapse", First Fridays, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 2006/ Noh Training Project Recital (chorus, shimai ("Atsumori-kiri"), nohkan ("Otoko-mai"), and experimental noh ("Llanto" conceived by Lluis Valls) / Alvina Krause Theater, Bloomsburg, PA. 9/4/2006 2006/ "Pine Barrens" by Greg Giovanni (contemporary Noh theatre)/ Theatre Nohgaku East Coast Tour 2006) / in the role of Wakitsure/ 9/15, 16 North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, N.C.; 9/19 Duke University, Durham, N.C.; 9/21 Hampden Sydney College, Hampden, VA. 2006/ "Ascent" - a dance for camera by Mariel McEwan and Maya Gingery. Shot at "Fossil Flat", California. 2007/ "Improvisation #2" / L.A. Improv Festival / 01/5&6/07 Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California 2007/ Work-in-Progress / Solo Performance / Anatomy Riot(dance series) / Zen Sushi / Los Angeles, California 2007/ "Improvisation on Anarchy" Music by Philip Glass; Text by Noam Chomsky 4/2/07 Max 10/The Electric Lodge, Venice, California 2007/ "Ascent" shown at Dance Camera West - Local Makers-LA Choreographers and Directors 06/09/07 Cheviot Hills Recreation Center 2007/ "Seven Moves" for the show "Willing Collaborators" with Open Gate Theater at Diavolo Dance Studio, The Brewery, Los Angeles. June 23, 8 pm. With Will Salmon, flute and Brad Dutz, percussion. Also, the role of Circe in "Noman" a play by Will Salmon and a Flute trio with Will Salmon and Vinny Golia. 2008/ "I Strain My Ears" CalArts Main Gallery/05.21.08 @ noon/ with Carole Kim, video mix and Vinny Golia, flutes 2008/ "Flare" Traxx at Union Station, downtown Los Angeles/ 06.15.08 @ 9 pm/ with Carole Kim, video installation and Vinny Golia, winds. 2008/ Los Angeles Movement Arts / "The Other Shore" Choreography by Jia Wu. Costumes by Mariel McEwan. Nate Holden Performing ARts Center/ 7.27.08 @ 8 pm. With Ally Voye, Rosemary Candelario and Eve Aymami. 2008/ Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Festival* "The Other Shore" Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany.11.24.08 2009/ "The Blue Marble" Collaboratory theatre on environmental issues. The Electric Lodge, Venice CA 8.29.09 @8 pm. 2010/ Performance at Dance Camera West, Local Makers, choreography by Maia Harari, 8 pm 6/19/10 2010 / BODY WITHOUT ORGANS:AN ANTI-DANCE OR ANOTHER KIND OF HOMAGE TO DEAD HEROES, A Dance Theater directed and performed by Maya Gingery, with Brian Getnick, Performance and Archie Carey, music. Pieter PASD, Lincoln Heights, CA, 8 pm 7/24/10 2010/Theatre Nohgaku: "Crazy Jane" by David Crandall, experimental noh theatre, Bloomsburg Theater, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 8/13 & 14, 2010/BODY WITHOUT ORGANS: NEW VERSION @Pieter PASD , Lincoln Heights, CA 7 pm 10/17/10 @7 pm. With Brian Getnick and Archie Carey. / "Aka Suri" new solo choreography for Anatomy Riot Dance Series @ MiMoDa Studios, Los Angeles 11/15/10 @8 pm
