Maho is working as one of the Associated Artists at the Culture Push for 2023 and beyond.
She questions these themes through researching, conversations, and creating with Culture Push.
What is participation in the context of performance?
What is the space between ritual and performance?
What does the tea ceremony mean now as an art form and a ritual?
Differences and similarities between private and public in Japanese and other cultures
Rediscovering Asian culture in the US and Reclaiming the complexity of cultural influence, etc. etc.
Cleaning as act of Care 大掃除という名のパフォーマンスリチュアル
Please join our [Emptying Ritual]
12/16/2022 at 7:30 pm (EST) 日本時間17日朝9時at DPA @d_media_p_mom_a live and I.G.live, Sake to follow at DPA,
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Inspired by the Japanese custom of end-of-year cleaning, we'll find tangible and intangible things we don't necessarily need anymore and clear them together.
It's a celebration of our changing moments and emptying space for the new journey.
It’s a cleaning ritual, so if you wish, clean your desired space with us via Instagram live while we perform the cleaning ritual. Also, it’ll be nice to imagine what you wish to release at the end of 2022 (creating your “emptying wishlist”), instead of wanting something as usual wishlist.
We invite you at DPA, garden level (dm me for the address) or DPA Instagram @d_media_p_mom_a
https://www.instagram.com/d_media_p_mom_a/
Performances:
Yohanna M. Roa, “Textile Woman” – October 8th @ 7PM
Dafna Naphtali + Maho Ogawa Live Performance – October 8th @ 7:45PM
Linda Mary Montano Art Counseling Event – October 21st @ 3-6PM
Public Panel Discussion Moderated by Masa Hosojima ; Followed by a Garden Chicken Dance by Linda Mary Montano- October 22nd @ 5PM
Artists: Linda Mary Montano, Dafna Naphtali, Yohanna M. Roa, Zorica Colic, Kim Connerton, Tamiko Kawata, Wendy Miller, Maho Ogawa
Curated by:Masa Hosojima
The Minimum Movement Catalog Exhibition:
June 3rd Friday 2022
gallery open 2:30-8pm
live demonstration at 3pm and 7pm
June 4th Saturday 2022
gallery open 3-7pm
live demonstration at 4pm
Venue : Umwelt Gallery 15 Ingraham Street, Brooklyn,
Exhibition catalog: catalog
PSVP: minimum movement catalog exhibition
Donation: Helpminimummovementcatalog
Upcoming performances in Dec:
Maho is participating in a dance festival Whenever Wherever Festival 2021 in Tokyo for:
Upcoming performances in Nov :
Maho is performing for
Minimum Movement Dialogue Series will come out soon with a new viewing setting for a limited audience members. More info to come.
Maho is Performing for Sunk Shore on October 17th,
Walking tour at 2pm
Performance at 3pm
Free with register / event details= Click here
10/9 Porch Plays Festival
We're performing an excerpt from Minimum Movement Dialogue #1 at Porch Plays Festival at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
WHEN: Saturday, October 9 | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Rain date: Saturday, October 16, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
WHERE: Performances take place at Cottage C on Cottage Row
Festival takes place along Cottage Row
ADMISSION: Free! | Registration requested here
7/31/2021 Works on Water Triennial
PROGRAM:
12:00pm - 9:00pm: Exhibition of Artworks + Open Studios in and around the WoWhaus
1:00pm: Unrolling of the Estuarial Council of the Weeds with andrea haenggi
2:00pm: Artist Talk with Perrin Ireland
3:00pm Audio Score: : Tidewater Studies with Tyler Rai
4:30pm Performance: Overflows + Disruptions: Soundings with moira williams
5:30pm Performance: : Tidewater Studies with Tyler Rai
9:00pm Film Screening: Tidewater Studies with Tyler Rai
Maho is performing on Andrea Haenggi's the Estuarial Council of the Weeds Hand Roll for Works on Water Triennial at Governors Island on 7/31.
White Noise IV
Curated by Juan Puntes with Katherine Liberovskaya
July 9-11 & July 23-24
4201 1ST AVE, SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN, NY 11232
Sound Installations viewable from 12PM Noon – 7PM
See here For Live Performance Schedule
* 7/24 7:30-Hans Tammen,
8:30-Masa Hosojima&Maho Ogawa
Participating Artists: Tom Chiu, Neil Leonard, Dan Joseph, Phill Niblock, Katherine Liberovskaya, Matt Sullivan, Beatrice Antonie Martino, Masa Hosojima, Maho Ogawa, Michael Schumacher, Zorica Čolić, Dafna Naphtali, Chuck Bettis, & Hans Tammen
RSVP at info@whiteboxny.org or on Facebook
COVID Regulation: Masks required and provided.
7/21/2021 at 7:30pm
Re:Live Performance Lab curated by Kathie Halfin and Fang Yu Liu at Satellite Art Club (916 Fulton St, Brooklyn) with Oya Damla, Butch Merigoni, Ronit Leving Delago, and Maho Ogawa
6/23/2021 at 7:30pm
Re: Live Performance Lab! curated by Kathie Halfin and Fang Yu Liu at Satellite Art Club (916 Fulton St, Brooklyn) with Jana Astanov, Maho Ogawa, Ariel Kleinberg, Glenn Potter-Takata
Minimum Movement Dialogue by Maho Ogawa
May 8th at 4pm, 2021
Online location to be announced in April.
I am pleased to announce my movement exhibition Minimum Movement Dialogue - focusing on the process of movement language to understand cultures beyond ideological / aesthetic differences in body movement.
The presentation is a hybrid performance of online movement catalog and a live-streamed performance by four dancers on May 8th.
Performers
Miles Butler, Ursula Eagly, Carolyn Hall , Karim Tharani, Maho Ogawa
Web app collaboration for ‘Minimum Movement Catalog’
Katherine Chuang
Please get your ticket HERE
Ogawa is collaborating in the exhibition
'FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF "MAKING'
WhiteBox Harlem @ El Barrio’s Artspace PS109
215 E 99 St, New York, NY 10029
Curated by Masa Hosojima, Organized by Kyoko Sato
Participating artists: Kenichi Kanazawa, Ken Ikeda, Rie Nakajima, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Masa Hosojima
Performance collaboration on 4/24/2021: Elliott Sharp, Matt Sullivan, Maho Ogawa, Beatrice Antonie Martino
Masks required. RSVP to info@whiteboxny.org
[Minimum Movement Catalog]のパフォーマンス映像がNYのギャラリーWhiteBox にて12/6まで展示中です。
EXODUS V Aesthetics in the Political
curated by Kyoko Sato, WhiteBox Harlem, 2020(キュレーター佐藤恭子、ホワイトボックス ・ハーレム、2020年)
November 14 – December 6, 2020 | Tue – Sun, 12-6pm
Participating Artists:
Asako Iwasawa, Aya Uekawa, Chié Shimizu, Junko Yoda, Kayoko Nakamura, Kazuko Miyamoto, Keiko Miyamori, Kunié Sugiura, Kyoko Hamaguchi, Maho Ogawa, Minako Iwamura, Momoyo Torimitsu, Noriko Shinohara, Sachigusa Yasuda, Tamiko Kawata, Yoko Toda, Yukari Edamitsu
[Prosthetic Gestures (from the nation called Japan)] will be presented at "Traces of Life" from 10/17 - 11/16
Opening: Oct 17th, 6:30-9 pm
The Hive Art Community, 1218 Prospect Ave, Brooklyn
The exhibition “Traces Of Life” invites artists from different disciplines including performances, visual art, video art, archival projects. Cultural producers use the language of art as an entry point to respond to the themes of data justice, creative and subversive use of technology, and the multilayered nature of data.
I’m performing in Abigail Levine’s choreography for Alvin Lucier’s beautiful music work at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM.
This will be a great evening.
If you scroll down, you’ll find my name&bio as one of the performers.
I gave a movement workshop in Tokyo using my method and Viewpoint method on 1/14/2020.
I had a final presentation for the fall semester 2019 at Brooklyn College on 12/16/2019.
I worked as a writer in residence/ dramaturgy for Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura at Mount Tremper Art in August 2019
Minimum Movement Catalog work in progress showing at Lift Off residency program showing in July 2019.
Minimum Movement Catalog
work in progress showing # 14
At Domestic Performance Agency
567 Carlton Avenue. Brooklyn 11238
7/20 / 2018
Starting time will be announced soon.
Of Serra (to movement) begins with the forms of Richard Serra’s iconic Prop pieces and performs a substitution of materials—from steel forms to human bodies. Sound design by Paula Matthusen. With performers Maho Ogawa and Vitche-Boul Ra.
Monday-Thursday, June 11-14, 2018 4-7p (Maho performs on 11th from 5-7pm and on 12th from 4-5pm and 6-7pm)
Closing reception June 14, 7p
Fridman Gallery 287 Spring Street, NYC
Maho Ogawa performs in Athena Kokoronis's work with wonderful artists on June 9 2018 at Dance and Process at The Kitchen.
Details↓
This event features new works and is the culmination of a ten-week group process of sharing work and feedback. Facilitated by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen, and featuring work by Lauren Bakst, NIC Kay, Athena Kokoronis, and Angie Pittman.
Initiated in 1995, Dance and Process is The Kitchen's longest running series. Dance and Process stages an interrogation of methods of choreographic and dance practice, whereby artists challenge default structures in their own work and the field at large.
June 8, 8pm: Lauren Bakst and NIC Kay
June 9, 6pm: Athena Kokoronis and Angie Pittman
Tickets: $15 General ($12 for Members) for a single performance. $20 for both.
On the afternoon of June 9, between 3 and 6pm, join Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency and guests for cooking, food sampling, and shopping from an array of Domestic Performance Agency items including the launch of DPA's first cookbook published in collaboration with Yonkers International Press. FREE.
Starting in 2013, Minimum Movement Catalog (www.suisoco.com/choreography/minimum-movement-catalog/) currently consists of 83 movement instructions, an ongoing study that archives the simplest movements of the human body and compares them in different media and structures. This movement-based research aims to reveal clarity in mechanisms and systems of body movements with the goal of finding objective methods of executing movement.
2/1~3/ 2018 at Danspace Project
Performed by Mina Nishimura with Martita Abril, Jonathan Burkland, Lydia Chrisman, Samuel Hanson, Maho Ogawa, Ilana Stuelpner, and Niko Tsocanos
Music Composed by Masahiro Sugaya
Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann
Costumes by Kota Yamazaki
*11/28 Tuesday at 7:30pm
グラフィックデザイナー兼ダンスアーティストでもあるシンガポール人Erikaとの初コラボレーション作品。移り変わるエモーショナルな体とカタログとして人体の動きを記録すること・カタログという形態と舞台上でのパフォーマンスという形態・体と抽象化されたグラフィックデザインのライン、などなど対話を重ねながらの創作現場はとてもスリリングです。
朝起きてすぐ動きを一つづつ足していく方法で作った振り付けをベースに、継続中の作品Minimum Movement Catalog をお客さんに引いてもらって合体させていく作品です。共演するほかの振付家さんも面白い方達で上映後はアフタートークもあります。
Performance Studio Open House presents works-in-progress and a discussion with the artists about the development process for new movement and dance.
PSOH: February features work by Ayano Elson, Maho Suiso Ogawa (pictured), and Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal.
Post-showing discussion moderated by Jen McGinn.
ブルックリンにある、Domestic Performance Agency(DPA) という、" パフォーマンスがどう日常に存在しうるか " という実験をするためのスタジオにて、NYで初めてのフルイブニングイベントを行うことになりました。DPAについては、発起人であるAthenaとMovement Research が行ったインタビューに詳しく載っていますのでこちらをご参照ください。私は6月からDPAにて創作活動を行っていまして、この場所や環境にインスパイアされ、以前の作品にない要素を色々と試みています。
At the next performance happening at the DPA, Maho Suiso Ogawa will present her choreographic material, “The Way of Drinking Hot Water”. In “The Way of Drinking Hot Water” Suiso will pull together elements of ritual and sensorial textures to accompany her usage of the Minimum Movement Catalog. Minimum Movement Catalog is a database of 112 movements which Suiso has created and continues to compile through the years. In it, she notes the fine or hard to see movement components within a larger gesture. Hope you will join us for one of these shows.
The Way of Drinking Hot Water 2016
November 16 1pm Doors open at 12:45
November 17&18 8pm Doors open 7:45
Admission $5-30 donation
RSVP ( 8 seats per showing) : domesticperformanceagency@gmail.com
Domestic Performance Agency
567 Carlton Avenue. Brooklyn 11238
www.domesticperformanceagency.com
Maho "Suiso" Ogawa is a New York based movement artist originally from Japan.
After studying ballet, traditional Japanese dance, Butoh, and graduating from Wako University, She came to the U.S. in 2011. Her works have been shown in various venues in Tokyo, Seoul, and New York: Raft in Tokyo, Korea & Japan Dance Festival in Seoul, Whenever Wherever Festival in Tokyo, Za Koenji in Tokyo, Dance New Amsterdam Theater in NY, Soak Festival at Cave in NY, The CURRENT SESSIONS at Wild Project in NY, Spring Movement at the Center for Performance Research in NY, New York University Grey Gallery in NY. She’s given many choreography workshops with performance residencies. Ogawa’s work was presented by the Whenever Wherever Dance Festival in 2010, 2011 & 2013 in Tokyo. For example, the work “GRID on GRID” (2010) was presented on the stairs in front of Asahi Art Square building in Tokyo, and “Grid with fingers and arms” (2011) was live streamed over the internet as well as performed at Morishita Studio in Tokyo. In 2013 the Tokyo Culture Creation Project invited her to research and create a piece about the human body’s behavior. The work, “Behavior Patterns for the 23rd Century”, supported by a Tokyo Metropolitan Government grant, was composed of people’s subconscious movement patterns in daily life. Her movement database “Minimum Movement Catalog(MMC)” was published in an on-line magazine “Conectom”, published by LEIMAY in 2013, and its theater version was presented at the Soak Festival(NY), The CURRENT SESSIONS(NY), Spring Movement(NY), and Whenever Wherever Dance Festival(Tokyo).
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
100 Washington Square East
Tuesday, October 20, 6:30 pm 2015
Gallery Conversation and Performance
With Kunié Sugiura, artist in the exhibition; Suiso Ogawa, dancer and choreographer; and Pato Hebert, associate arts professor of Art & Public Policy, NYU.
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Offered in conjunction with the exhibition For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, presented in New York City in two parts:
at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University (September 10–December 7, 2015)
and Japan Society Gallery (October 9, 2015–January 10, 2016).
For more information on the exhibition,
Grey Art Gallery, NYU:
www.nyu.edu/greyart, greyartgallery@nyu.edu, 212/998-6780
'MMC -Duet'
at Hatch series
May 2nd Saturday at 8pm 2015
Choreographer: Maho Suiso Ogawa
Dancers: Laura Neese, Maho Suiso Ogawa
Venue: The Works Studio - 131 West 24th street, 4th floor (between 6th and 7th ave), New York, NY, 10011
Tickets : $15 at the door or as a donation made online at www.jmtw.org
Spring Movement @ CPR on April 16th at 7:30pm, 2015
CPR – Center for Performance Research will present Spring Movement, a
three-night festival of works by 12 emerging and established choreographers in dance and performance, April 16-18, 2015 at 7:30pm. The festival will include new and previously presented work that
spans dance, movement-based work, and performance art. Each evening will feature four different artists performing under CPR’s brand new state of the art LED theatrical lighting system, procured
on CPR’s behalf through the generous support of New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. CPR is thrilled to announce the participating artists for Spring
Movement 2015:
April 16th 7:30pm
tickets : http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1388592
venue : Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue Unit 1, Brooklyn, New York 11211
Thursday April 16:
Maho Ogawa – MMC duet
Julia Crockett & Group– Tiny Parties
Sally O'Neill and Tuva Hildebrand – That Disgusting Thing Called Intimacy
Stephanie Liapis – The Building of a Sphere
The Proof Is In The Processor - A Night of Information Theory -
On Jan 16th 8pm @ Industry City Distillery
MMC(Minimum Movement Catalog) をKinect という機械とコラボした作品を発表します。
詳しくは for more info → info
チケットはこちら→ Ticket
[Minimum Movement Catalog]
~words, movements, videos for discovering new ways of communication. ~
Performed and Choreographed by Maho Ogawa
Dec. 5th Friday at 7pm
Dec. 6th Saturday at 9pm
Tickets : http://bricktheater.com/?type=show&id=1120
Siiso-Maho Movement Workshop in Kamakura, Japan on Aug 3 2014.
「GYROTONIC®
KAMAKURA」5周年イベントのお知らせです。
午前はニューヨークでアーティストとして活動しているSuiso-Maho
Ogawaさんをお迎えしての「らせんでつながるワークショップ」。
ジャイロキネシスを受けていらっしゃるみなさんにいつもと違うらせんの感覚を感じていただけたらの気持ちからできたワークショップです。
もちろん、ふだんジャイロキネシスを受けてないかたも大歓迎です。
遊び感覚でからだ全体をたっぷり動かし、自分や空間、人・・・さまざまなこととつながりを感じられる2時間です。
When : Aug 3rd 2014 - 10:30~12:30
AT : Oomachi Kaikan 大町会館 http://www.kamakura.info/S104625.html
鎌倉市大町1-17-11
FEE : ¥3000
Reservation & More info: http://gyrotonickamakura.com/blog/invitation/1047/
[The Soldier's Tale] May 26th Monday 2014
[Fertile Ground dance festival]
http://www.greenspacestudio.org/FertileGround.html
Date-April 27th Sunday at 7pm.
Venue- GREEN SPACE 37-24 24th st 301 Long Island City NY
the CURRENT SESSIONS
Suiso Ogawa PERFORMANCE TIMES:
Friday // March 7, 2014 at 730p
Sunday // March 9, 2014 at 3p w/ TALKBACK
VENUE:
wild project, 195 E 3rd St (between Ave A + B)
Join the Facebook Event at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393785210880014/
TICKET PRICES:
$20 General ($15 presale online until Wednesday, March 5);
$30 Double Feature Sunday
$15 Student/Senior/East Village Residents* (with valid ID; *at the door only).
TICKET LINK web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/931560
More info: thecurrentsessions.com