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. 

Choreographic Score Mural is on view at The Movement-Image exhibition and performance series with stellar artists from 10/16-11/21 at The Lewis Center for the Arts, curated by Colleen Asper.

About The Movement-Image

The Movement-Image is an exhibition and performance series curated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Colleen Asper. It unspools the motion picture to situate performance in a continuum with film.

In Performing Remains, Rebecca Schneider describes the ways in which media studies, “conflates the invention of the still with the invention of the camera, too often forgetting the long history of precedent living stills.” The Movement-Image likewise sees across disciplinary divides to a long history of movement. The six artists presented in the exhibition understand the living body as a force of continuous invention.

Featured Artists

Will Rawls’s regular degular weaves the still into a moving image by making a stop-motion film of a living performer as she visits four locations found on each corner of the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Interstate 44, while Amy Beecher’s Holding Leadintroduces movement to the photograph by filming the artist’s increasingly quavering hand being positioned and lit while holding a rose. Leila Weefur nods to the use of music in silent films by scoring their Blackberry Pastorale: Symphony No. 1 with Fantasie Negre, a composition by Florence Beatrice Price—the first Black woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Weefur’s lecture performance on 10/24 will merge cinema, embodiment, and the symbiotic nature of beauty and horror in the Black queer experience. Maho Ogawa’s Choreographic Score Mural is a score in the form of a geometric mapping of the movement of the body on the walls of the gallery. On 11/1 the mural will be activated by Ogawa and two dancers in a series of spontaneous movements that, following the philosophy of Ichigo-Ichie, embrace the unrepeatability of movement. Sahra Motalebi’s installation explores the historical meanings of the imagination in its connection to metaphor-making and to the breath. It will become the site for a workshop on the voice she will lead on 11/7. Xavier Cha’s Untitled (caretaker) is a livestreamed video of a performer wearing a GoPro chest harness, only allowing access to a disorienting view of limbs. On 11/14 the performance will be livestreamed from a remote studio space on campus to the gallery. Taken together, these works offer the body as a tool for making pictures that slide between and across rooms and screens.

 Choreographic Score Mural demo performance will be on 11/1 at 4:30pm

Performance Mix Festival Vol.37 on June 9, 2023 at 8am at Abrons Art Center Experimental Theater.

Festival Details are Here  / Maho's program info is here  / Purchase tickets from here 

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,

🧹🧹🧹🧹

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

Upcoming performances in Dec:

Maho is participating in a dance festival Whenever Wherever Festival 2021 in Tokyo for: 

• Restating and Performing Ursula Eagly's The Nature of Physical Reality on December 24 &25th
•  Performing Satoru Kimura & Mari Fukutome's 'Timetable Recipes in Different Lands' on December 23 & 24th in Tokyo, Japan  

 Upcoming performances in Nov : 

Maho is performing for

• Ursula Eagly's The Nature of Physical Reality at Abrons Art Center in November and at Whenever Wherever Dance Festival in December 24 & 25 in Tokyo Japan,

• Andrea Haenggi (pictured from rehearsal footage)on November 15 at Judson Church Series,

• rehearsing / workshopping for Mina Nishimura for her commissioned work at Danspace for 2022 Fall season.

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.

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　

「エクソドスV 歴史のうねりの中で」展

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.

2/21-22/2020:

Alvin Lucier: Orpheus Variations & Glacier Performed by Charles Curtis, Abigail Levine, Dancers & Wind Ensemble

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.

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. 

Restagings # 2: Of Serra (to movement) at Fridman Gallery

Maho Ogawa performs in Athena Kokoronis's work with wonderful artists on June 9 2018 at Dance and Process at The Kitchen. 

Details↓

Mina Nishimura:

Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W) 

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.

***** 

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