Current and Upcoming Projects and Teaching|2016
Maré Hieronimus is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher whose work weaves together her interests in movement, light, sound, the visual language, and perceptual awareness. Drawing from her interests in memory, mythology, sensory perception, embodiment, and the interface between body and landscape, she creates ritually based dance art using the shifting field of the body as the point of origin.
The Body Archive is the umbrella for her teaching work and movement investigations, which is a synthesis of her studies in dance, improvisation, somatic based practices, Yoga, Ayurvedic & Vedic Philosophy, and shamanism. Committed to the practice of movement as a healing art form, through her classes she facilitates an experience of the subtler aspects of yoga, the innate wisdom of the dancing body, and our interconnectedness to the cosmos.
Upcoming|Fall 2016
Dixon Place Crossing Boundaries curated by Marcia Monroe
A shared program of new work by New York choreographers and dance artists who cross cultural, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries
Dixon Place Crossing Boundaries curated by Marcia Monroe A shared program of new work by New York choreographers and dance artists who cross cultural, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Featuring Sandra Kramerov, Maré Hieronimus, Vanessa Vargas and Selma Trevino
Ocean Born (excerpt from a work in progress)
a ritual performance piece begun in the high desert lake basin of Oregon. a creation myth.
conceived and performed by Maré Hieronimus
with original soundscore by Cory Neale, voice by Maré Hieronimus
and video by Maré Hieronimus
Tuesday October 25, 2016 @ 7:30pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002
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The Outlet Dance Project Festival
The Outlet Dance Project is an annual festival committed to collaboration, community building, interdisciplinary experimentation, and the exploration of the audience/performer relationship. It provides women-identified choreographers of all traditional and nontraditional dance genres an opportunity to share their artistic vision through site-specific dance, stage performance, and film.
Ocean Born (excerpt from a work in progress)
a ritual performance piece begun in the high desert lake basin of Playa Summer Lake, Oregon, exploring the cycle of rebirth and regeneration, recorded through photo and video. In dialogue with the work of sculptor Elyn Zimmerman and her exhibition Wind, Water, Stone.
conceived and performed by Maré Hieronimus
with original soundscore by Cory Neale, voice by Maré Hieronimus
Sunday October 30th, 2pm
Grounds for Sculpture
The East Gallery
80 Sculptors Way, Hamilton, NJ 08619
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Playa Womb was initiated while in residence at The Playa Summer Lake Artist Fellowship Program, in Playa Lake, Oregon. Many thanks to Playa Summer Lake for making this project possible.
Previous Highlights|2015-2016
the CURRENT SESSIONS Volume VI, Issue I.
The CURRENT SESSIONS presents the 10th edition of our biannual performances series, Volume VI, Issue I., from March 11 to 13, 2016 at the wild project theater in the East Village. From the highly-physical and the emotional to the visually striking and the clever, Volume VI, Issue I. organizes twelve artists within four curated collections of dancemaking - Female Forms, Design vs. Narrative, Distorting the Frame, and Sound Score - in order to capture the contemporary moving body and its ever-evolving self.
AUGUR
DATES + TIMES of performance
Friday, March 11 @ 7:30pm With Opening Party
Sunday, March 13 @ 7pm With Closing Party
wild project 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY
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AUGUR is a multi-media, collaborative, migrating performance work by PROJECT|ORACLE (Maré Hieronimus, Nicole Nigro, Cory Neale, and friends) investigating the essential search for meaning through the framework of contemporary oracle, concepts of divination, altered states of consciousness, and ritual performance. Defined as the official in the classical world who was responsible for portending events through reading the flight patterns of birds, AUGUR combines dance installation, sound, projected image, imbued object, and migration pathways to shift and transform the experience of the mundane.
PROJECT|ORACLE is the umbrella for the collaborative work of dance artists Maré Hieronimus (Brooklyn) and Nicole Nigro (Toronto), and sound artist Cory Neale (Philadelphia). Inspired by their shared love of the power of ritual, communal process, and the magic inherent in the experience of live performance, they co-create body and site-based performance work that embraces diversity and fosters empathy.
Volume VI, Issue I. is curated by Alexis Convento, Founder & Producing Director, Allison Jones, Development Associate and with guest curators Lydia Mokdessi, Editor at Culturebot; Niall Jones, artist; and Risa Shoup, Executive Director of Fourth Arts Block.
Triskelion Arts Presents Split Bill a shared program of new work
The Split Bill program aims to serve emerging and mid-career artists looking for a stepping stone between the showcase format, and full-on evening-length self-production. The series encourages the development of premiere, long-form pieces between 20 - 40 minutes by curating the presentation of all kinds of movement-based work shared over two nights, each night offering two different companies.
Split Bill Spring 2016 Artists are
Donofrio Dance Company, Kailey Mccrudden,
Kyung Lee, and Maré Hieronimus
ANTLERED EARTH
DATES + TIMES of performance
Thursday April 21st @ 7:30pm
Saturday April 23rd @ 7:30pm
The Muriel Schulman Theater at Triskelion Arts, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Enter on Banker Street for performances
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ANTLERED EARTH is the latest solo exploration to premiere by dance artist Maré Hieronimus. A ritual meditation on the fragility of life, and the physical and metaphorical passages of death, the piece chronicles her journey through seven landscape environments wearing a single green dress, the dress of her grandmother. Shed deer antlers appear throughout, drawing upon the multilayered mythological and symbolic meaning of the deer as both a guardian of the dead, and an intermediary between the worlds. The work also includes a live soundscore generated by sound artist Cory Neale, and video by Maré Hieronimus.
ANTLERED EARTH also includes the creation of a limited series photo book entitled ANTLERED EARTH: a pictorial journey through landscape and self, which is currently being edited. The release of this book is scheduled for Spring/2016.
Body into Sky (dance for film) a minimalist meditation of the presence of the elemental forces within self and life, and a love song to the body, nature, and the cosmos
collaboration with Video Artist Brian Harris, with original soundscore by Cory Neale
Link to Body into Sky dance for film study
continued filming, Spring/Summer 2016
Playa Summer Lake Fellowship Artist Residency, Summer Lake, Oregon
Work on a new dance for film and photographic series using the unique beauty and majesty of the Playa Summer Lake landscape, June, 2016
Continued Study in Ayurveda with Master Teacher Dr. Vasant Lad
Ananda Ashram, Monroe, New York, July 2016
Moving Arts Lab 2016: A Festival for Interdisciplinary Exploration
facilited by Peter Sciscioli
August 18, 2016 - 5:00pm - August 21, 2016 - 3:00pm, Earthdance, Plainfield, MA
A 3-day festival for exploring and blurring the lines between a host of forms: voice, improvisation, performance practices, composition, physical theater, and more. Teaching artists from the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) gather for a week-long residency preceding the festival. The fruits of their research become the starting point for a weekend of interweaving disciplines, concepts, and understandings. Categories that serve elsewhere are called into question. The festival culminates in a performance by IIAC teachers. Moving Arts Lab is open to all levels and backgrounds.
Somatic Practices for Traveling Between the Worlds with Maré Hieronimus
Through practices of deep sensing and inner listening, breath and movement work, and the use of poetic language and imagery/visualization, we will explore the generation of altered states of being using the body as the doorway in. Consciously accessing the liminal space between waking and dream states, we will look to unearth the intuitive wisdom of the body and its layers of mystery and meaning as they arise through sensation, image, archetype, and symbol. Through cultivating our relationship to this liminal space, we connect ourselves into the roots of our own creativity, the potential for healing, and our essential spiritual nature.
E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Artist Residency, Earthdance Center for Creative Living, Plainfield MA
February 15- March 1, 2015
I am thrilled to be returning to Earthdance, the most magical place in the Berkshire Mountains, to participate once again in the E|MERGE Artist Residency 2015.
New Dance Alliance @ HERE presents The 29th Annual International Performance Mix Festival
Festival Dates and Times:
Thursday-Tuesday, June 4-9, 2015
All Performances 8:30 PM
AUGUR (excerpts) Sunday June 7 @ 8pm
Tickets: $20 at the door / $15 in advance
Purchase tickets here
T: (212) 352-3101 | www.here.org
Breakfast Mix: Friday, June 5, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
FREE: RSVP info@newdancealliance.org
All events take place at HERE, 145 6th Ave. (Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring)
Box Office hours: After 5pm on show days or 2 hours before any performance.
AUGUR (excerpts) is a multi-media, collaborative, performance work investigating the essential search for meaning through the framework of contemporary oracle, concepts of divination, altered states of consciousness, and ritual performance. Defined as the official in the classical world who was responsible for portending events through reading the flight patterns of birds, AUGUR combines dance installation, sound, projected image, imbued object, and migration pathways to shift and transform the experience of the witness.
Co-conceived and directed by Maré Hieronimus, Nicole Nigro & Cory Neale
Performers Maré Hieronimus, Nicole Nigro, Cory Neale, with Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, CJ Holm, Eva Perrotta, and Yitzi Gal
Soundscore Cory Neale,
Video Jeremy Frindel and Maré Hieronimus
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, California
I am thrilled to have been selected for a month long residency through the Djerassi Resident Artist program in Summer, 2015.
INDIA Travel and Study at the 5th International Ayurveda Conference, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Continued study in Ayurveda with Master teachers Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Robert Svoboda, Claudia Welch, and other master teachers.
December, 2015
Salon: Work in Progress Showing curated by Rebecca Lloyd Jones
Friday January 22nd, 2016 @8pm
129 N 11th Street, 2nd Floor, Williamsburg Brooklyn, $5 at the door
I'll be showing a 15 minute study of ANTLERED EARTH, with music by Cory Neale, and dance for film