photo: BJ Watkins
2013
March 2: Maria dances in-progress sketch from newest piece divine/shadow @ LAVA (Brooklyn, NY)
January 15: Micia Mosely & Friends: New York in the New Year @ WOW Cafe Theatre
2012
October 6 & 7: previews of Any Resemblance with Jen Abrams Brooklyn, NY; FREE Click here to RSVP.
August 11 (8:00): SummerStage @ Marcus Garvey Park
July 13 & 14 (7:30): MBDance & Friends: Sweat Your Truth! @ WOW Cafe Theatre
June 15 (8:00): OUT LIKE THAT! @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!)
May 17: Dancing While Black, curated by Paloma McGregor @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!)
April 28: special site-specific installation of 50 Ways to Say… as part of No Longer Empty’s This Side of Paradise exhibit
April 14: DanceNOW [NYC] RAW Festival
Stand, a beginning (music by Ashley Phillips/APSoul), @ NYU Tisch Dance Studios
January 15: Women I Know (on womanhood and expansiveness, music by Ashley Phillips, photography by BJ Watkins) @ Femme Day of Action, Judson Memorial Church (NYC)
2011
“50 Ways to Say…” at No Longer Empty exhibit Bronx, NY Photo: Whitney Browne
November 3-5: Multiple works; Guest Artist of Ground Zero Dance for Only Connect @ Dogtown Dance Theater (Richmond, VA)
October 5: Lecture Demonstration @ Florida State University Dance Department
July 5 (7:30pm): Women I Know (on womanhood and expansiveness, music by Ashley Phillips, photography by BJ Watkins) @ Dixon Place HOT! Festival
June 3: Women I Know (work-in-progress), original score performed live by Ashley Phillips) @ monthly womyn of color cabaret, Rivers of Honey @ WOW Cafe Theatre
May 6th & 7th: Multiple works–including new solo debut–performed as culmination of creative residency Studio Series @ DTW
April 8th & 15th: Concerning Proximity (a romantic relationship duet based on negative space) E-Moves @ Harlem Stage
March 18-20: 50 Ways to Say… (using the Sisyphus myth as a way in to police brutality; original score) Harkness Dance Festival @ 92nd Street Y
MBDance on Panels & Discussions (2011)
October 5: Lecture Demonstration @ Florida State University Dance Department
April 7 (7pm): “Use Your Imagination: Dismantling Racism, Performance, Participation, Dialogue, Action” on behalf of both El Puente and Urban Bush Women @ Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
April 5 (7:30): Speaking on “Narrative in Contemporary Performance” panel @ Dance Theater Workshop FREE
