Event categories: Panels & Discussions

MBDance at Waterfront Wednesdays and Athens Cultural Center 

Start date: July 17, 2024
End date: July 18, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Henry Hudson Waterfront Park
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Classes & Workshops | Panels & Discussions
Our Summer is full we'll be part of Waterfront Wednesdays at Henry Hudson Waterfront Park in the beautiful Hudson, NY! We are looking forward to offering 2 workshops and performing 1 excerpt from our latest ritual artwork, These are the bodies that have not borne.  DANCING WITH EARTH is an outdoor dance workshop for the whole family; open […]

New Earth Bodies with Yura Sapi and Movement Synthesis by Maria Bauman

Date: May 19, 2024
Time: 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
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Step into a world where plants talk to you sharing their wisdom with answers to your deepest questions… Join us for New Earth Bodies to learn how to communicate with plants. Rediscover your role as a creator and steward of Mother Earth. We are creators, and birthing humans is not the only legacy we leave. […]

Connecting to the Divine Portal: an energy work & akashic records meditation with Alexeya and Movement Synthesis by Maria Bauman

Date: February 17, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
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Led by Alexeya with sound healing by Reiki Lune. This session is designed to illuminate and activate the divine portal of creation within, revealing the seeds of new life that seek to be born through us. We will be engaging in a gathering of collective intention setting, guided energy work and akashic records meditation and group […]

Sacred Bleedings: The Period to Postpartum Continuum with Rochelle Jamila with Movement Synthesis by Maria Bauman

Date: January 20, 2024
Time: 1:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
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In this workshop we will explore ancient practices for healthy periods and recovery following miscarriage, abortion, and birth. When we honor our periods as a mini postpartum, worthy of care and rest, we learn how to be present for all bleeding transitions. Rooted in her work as a period and postpartum doula, mover, and herbalist, […]

Gender Inclusive Uterine Health Support Group & Learning Circle with Ziiomi Law and Movement Synthesis by Maria Bauman

Date: April 20, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
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This space is tender. Participants can expect to be invited to share whatever feels safe about their own journey with their uterus/pelvic area/womb/any other term they may use to describe that place in their glorious bodies. You can share a lot or you can share nothing. We will hold it collectively. We will take time to […]

A Toast to Us

Date: January 11, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Panels & Discussions
MBDance attended A Toast to Us, Women+ of color producer happy hour in celebration of our community, legacy and future! This beautiful event gathered artists, producers, students and family and was presented by The Apollo, Junebug Productions and Urban Bush Women. We ate, sipped, laughed and re-connected. We can't wait until the next one! Photo […]

University of Minnesota Residency!

Start date: September 9, 2023
End date: September 30, 2023
Time: 12:00 am
Classes & Workshops | Panels & Discussions
During this three-week residency in the Fall, our Artistic Director, Maria Bauman and our Associate Artistic Director, Audrey Hailes, will build with U of M undergraduate dance students through technique classes and choreographic investigation. A performance work will become a part of the 2023/24 University Dance Theatre Repertory. Photo Credit: Scott Shaw

Womb: The Black Wealth Project

Date: April 27, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University Philadelphia, PA
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Panels & Discussions | Performances
An interdisciplinary project between Dance, Digital Media, the Pearlstein Gallery, the Writer’s Room, and students from West Philadelphia High School and lead artist and Rankin Scholar, Maria Bauman. An interdisciplinary project between Drexel University’s Dance Department, Digital Media, the Pearlstein Gallery, the Writer’s Room, students, multiple community groups including West Philadelphia High School and Rankin Scholar-in-Residence, […]

Pre-MANCC Intensive

Start date: December 12, 2022
End date: December 16, 2022
All-day event
Location: Washington, DC
Panels & Discussions
Last year, MANCC initiated a new archive residency program in honor of the late Dr. William R. Jones with Maria Bauman, multi-disciplinary artist, artistic director of MBDance, and community organizer, as the inaugural Fellow. Ms. Bauman returns to MANCC to continue her research, delving into the archives about and from the late Dr. William R. […]