MAUREEN WHITING CV

Select Choreography

  • May 2019 Choreographer for original Cesar Chavez play at Oakland Public Schools
  • April 2018 “Musk Ox Disco” site specific work for North Star Collective, Fairbanks, AK
  • March 2019 “horses” for North Star Ballet in Fairbanks, Alaska
  • November 2018 “belly”, the film
  • April 2018 “Reluctant Angels” with dancers Meredith Webster and Brett Allen Conway Safehouse for the Arts, SF (work in progress)
  • June 2016 & 2017 “Bear Writes an Equation about Death and Mathematics with Motoko ” Safehouse for the Arts, SF
  • Nov 2014 -Nov 2016 “Burden of Joy” showing Safehouse for the Arts, San Francisco ACT Theatre, Seattle November
  • 2014 “Bear writes an equation about death with Motoko”, Milk Bar, Oakland
  • April 2013 “About that Tree” for 13 dancers and one tree Commission by Velocity Dance Center Seattle
  • November 2012 Choreographer for the Indian Myth “Ramayana” ACT Theatre Seattle
  • June 2012 “Belly” Northwest New Works, On the Boards, Seattle

Films/Video

  • 2013-present “About that Tree” the film, in progress
  • 2012-present “Belly” the film, in progress
  • Bear Go Home DVD Release as part of “Seattle Women in Film 2008” “Bear Go Home”

Residencies

  • Mondalvo Saratoga with collaborator Motoko Honda June 2016
  • RAW Safehouse for the Arts SF 2014-present
  • ACT Theatre Seattle 2009-2016
  • Seattle University 2006-2009

Workshops/Teaching

  • “Children and their Instantaneous Choreographic Practice”, Cleveland Elementary, Oakland, April 2018-May 2019
  • “Art and Social Justice”, Base, Seattle, September 2017
  • “Narrative is in the Bones”, SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, June 2016
  • “The Dancer; The Thinking Performing Body” Seattle University Theatre: 2006-2009

Awards/Reviews

  • Discussion of showing of current work Burden of Joy SF 2015
  • Interview about Burden of Joy Seattle Arts 2014
  • Best of Seattle 2013 for Velocity Commission “About that Tree” 2014
  • Review of The Myth of Me and You, Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 2009
  • Preview of The Myth of You and Me, Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 2009
  • Review of The Myth of Me and You, Sandra Kurtz, Seattle Weekly, 2009

Education

  • Smith College, Northampton, MA with a B.A. in Mathematics, 1989