A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s piece “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, is a production of Fellowship of Friends – Amsterdam Center under the artistic guidance of director Sydney Russell. The actors have integrated theater techniques under the notion of mindfulness presence on stage. As light designer and movement mentor, I have collaborated since the beginnings of the rehearsal process by bring together practices of devised theatre and visual aspects of post-dramatic lighting.
Who: Fellowship of Friends | Where: Central public library of Amsterdam Roles: Light Designer, Movement Mentor for Actors
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a theater piece inspired by the principles of applied theater. Dutch based foundation for community arts “Stichting Arte Social” under the artistic leadership of choreographer Libertad Pozo Rodriguez brought together an emotional piece which explored themes of memory, love, friendship and loss by following the lives of six actors. As light designer, movement mentor and media artist, I have designed coaching sessions based on techniques of movement for actors and created light design settings and video projections which reflected the vision of the theater maker Pozo Rodriguez.
By: Libertad Rodriguez, Director Where: Touring Amsterdam (Muiderpoorttheater, Badhuis theater, Buurthuis Lydia)
My Roles: Light Designer, Media Artist, Movement Mentor
Medusa
It is a solo piece based on themes of identity, isolation and immobility after witnessing life threatening experiences in relation to physical and psychological traumas. As choreographer, I integrated a movement vocabulary inspired by contemporary dance, Japanese Butoh-theater and physical theater. It has been performed in Amsterdam and Athens.
Where: Muiderpoorttheather Amsterdam
Roles: Dancer, Choreographer
Side-Specific Dance
It is a collaborative improvisational piece in an abandon industrial space in Amsterdam. Musicians, dancers, and movers came together for a day, creating improvisational scores and sharing creativity and moments of presence.
Dancers: Risa Takita, Maya Moore
Where: Amsterdam
Role: Improviser
Creative Arts Psychotherapy
Two workshops offered to the participants the opportunity to discover and to learn to trust their ability to empathize, to respond authentically, and to translate non-verbal experiences into cognitive insights. Participants have attended with all level of mobility and they worked together to find a common thread. They explored story telling through art and drama. It was been led by Joseph Kearney a creative arts psychotherapist, specializing in story telling through drama, movement and group work. He studied at Maynooth University in Ireland and is interest in Jungian psychotherapy. As co-facilitator, I led movement sessions based on authentic movement and dance movement therapy.
Who: Co-facilitating with Joseph Kearney-Drama Therapist Where: AnaMorphic Studio/OT301, Amsterdam
Empowering Women
It is a project of a series of psycho-therapeutic interventions using dance, drama, painting, voice and music to assist the emotional, mental, physical and social well-being of a group of migrant women originally migrating from Latin America and Spain during their transition into their new lives in the Netherlands. It took place in Amsterdam in the Center of Hispanohablandes for about a year.
Where: Centro Hispanohablantes, Spanish speaking cultural centre for migrants, Amsterdam
Female Identity
During the course of the yearly event organized by Athens Goddess Festival, I have conducted a dance movement therapy workshop and a movement session workshop working on the themes of female identity and the connection with the archetypal female energy through the media of contemporary dance, authentic movement and dance movement therapy. It was a collaboration with the musician and dancer Efi Xanthopoulou who played African drums. The sessions have been attended by both female and male participants with enthusiasm.
Where: Athens Goddess Festival
Laban Movement Analysis
There were two workshops conducted in order to be delivered to interactive meetings with students and faculty members during my visit at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. The subjects of Laban movement analysis and dance movement therapy in theory and praxis have been introduced to students of the department of music and dance among other students from the faculty of Arts and Humanities. Applications on specific groups on both subjects have been extensively discussed.
Experiential Anatomy
It is a series of lessons based on creative and humanistic approaches using movement, touch, drawing and creative writing to embody and personalize each individual’s learning experience. Each experience becomes the foundation in understanding one’s movement patterns and potential. The lessons are founded on principles from Body-Mind-Centering, Laban movement analysis, Ideokinesis, and Bartenieff fundamentals.
Who gets to decide who the other is?
It is a dance piece which investigates the themes of territory, both female and male gender, identity, body image, and signs of hidden violence. It is an interdisciplinary piece using physical theater, contemporary dance and video art. It has been performed by two female and a male dancer in Malta. As choreographer, I used techniques from contemporary dance, dance movement therapy and physical theater.
Maya Moore 