photo: NATALIE FIOL
Leah and Mauriah (L+M) began making dances together while in graduate school in the flatlands of the Midwest. Their shared practices bridge the realms of dancing, writing, walking, teaching, and dreaming together. They make performances that are endurance-driven events attentive to location and place. Currently based in different geographical locations, L+M continue to engage in creative practices with one another, creating spaces to share their writing, walking, sounding, facilitating and dancing with their individual communities.
|
Leah Wilks is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based out of Brooklyn, NY and Durham, NC. At times, she is also a gardener, an elder-care companion, a musician, a facilitator, and a writer. Her research revolves around embodied memory, monuments, and death and dying practices. |
photo: Em Pike
|
Mauriah Donegan Kraker is a midwesterner, a collaborative performance maker, a walker, improviser, teacher. She is an advocate for slow travel: walking around the block and through the city as a means of attending to choreographic unfolding of time cycles in the body + land. Find her near the Milwaukee River (Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee lands) where she is serving as an artist in residence of the Milwaukee River Greenway. |