These are the bodies that have not borne is a performance ritual centering the womb journeys of Black and Brown folks who are contending with not yet bearing a child. We are looking for artists to join this process and performance.
Desire: A Sankofa Dream, by Maria Bauman and MBDance, is a site-responsive, immersive performance-ritual built around Black Queer survival techniques such as place-claiming and world-building. It presupposes a world wherein our ancestors are unicorns who have come back to remind humans of our possibilities and agency. Choreographer and writer Maria Bauman reimagines Desire for each new site […]
“Getting to meet and speak with Maria was a more memorable experience than the picture alone would be able to capture.” Alejandra M. Llican Roman
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative Announce Brooklyn College Residencies
MBDance intrigues in Dying, Dying, and Dying. It began as a meditation on death, but the direction it goes is so wildly different. Wil Aiken Culture Editor
Feeling the Vibration of the Periphery : A Conversation Feeling the Vibration of the Periphery : A Conversation with Maria Bauman-Morales, Alyssa Alpine, Pato Hebert , Cláudio Bueno , João Simões , Jaime Shearn Coan, Kendra Sullivan.
Fugitive Choreographies MBDancer : Ebony Noelle Golden An excerpt from EchoSystems: An Ethnography, a series of reflections about the 2015-16 collaboration between Angela’s Pulse and Junebug Productions: Dancing While Black: On Fertile Ground. This residency project brought together four Black women choreographers across three generations of practice to engage with New Orleans arts communities and […]
These are the bodies that have not borne. is a reckoning, a prayer and a monument to grief and to spell-casting for Black and Brown people who have not birthed children through their bodies. Join us at BAAD! on October 13-14, 2023 for a work-in-progress performance-ritual with Maria Bauman and brilliant collaborators: Josiah Jay, Ke’Ron Jamaul, Rochelle Wilbun & Graciella Ye’Tsunami. […]
For episode 25, Maria speaks with Gibrán Rivera on accountability, wholeness, QTPOC Sankofa Dreaming mini-festival, what it means to ‘sweat’ your truth, and much more. If you grew up in 90’s you probably know what it meant to be “sweatin” somebody. It’s something like liking someone, and doing all sorts of things to make sure […]
MBDance is proudly offering a mini-festival of participatory workshops, a community meal and a kickoff performance–all centered around trans and queer artists of color past and present. MBDance Artistic Director Maria Bauman mused “I have an undergraduate and a terminal degree in my art field and yet I didn’t learn about queer nor trans artists […]
The experience at Desire: A Sankofa Dream gave me an invitation to practice choice. To grow this muscle; to work out the fatigue, to embrace the vulnerabilities that come with it and to gain strength. This is an essay about saying “GO” and trusting, releasing, knowing that we will be exactly where we need to […]
MBDance Artistic Director, Maria Bauman will lead a Renew & Restore Workshop as a part of The Gathering 2021. The Gathering, conceived by Camille A. Brown, serves as an open forum for intergenerational Black Women artists to support one another, advocate for greater cultural equity and acknowledgement in the contemporary dance world, share information, grow […]
Maria Bauman is featured in Raja Feather Kelly’s Future Impossible anthology.
Desire: A Sankofa Dream is reviewed on thINKingDance by L. Graciella Maiolatesi.
