https://mayasimonez.com/home daily 1.0 2025-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/1621514185355-LCMEIJBAI8LFKW04UL01/MayaSimoneZeigler_byWhitneyBrowne.jpg Home Photo credits: Whitney Browne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/1621467002303-VTBU069UHXDQWOH7ZBL0/MayaSimoneZeigler_WhitneyBrowne86149.jpg Home Photo credit: Whitney Browne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/1621467275991-2BOIR7UJSBE4J4WFYHJ2/MayaSimoneZeigler_Home_byWhitneyBrowne.jpg Home Photo by Whitney Browne https://mayasimonez.com/about daily 0.75 2022-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/1621461556323-NMV4GHHY8ZIMSE23HDM5/MayaSimoneZeigler_about.jpg About - Maya Simone is reaching back to move forward. New York City-based interdisciplinary artist Maya Simone Z. (they/he/she) creates performance-based work that centers emotional and spiritual connections between ancestral memory, the body, and the Black diaspora’s collective capacity to dream. They examine how brain-body-spirit connections manifest in private and civic life for Black and queer folks in both national and transnational contexts. They are particularly interested in how these tensions affect Black kinship, relationships and communities as we collectively navigate the specter of Capitalist white supremacy. Maya Simone draws on Black movement and dance traditions, multimedia experimentation, Afro-futurism, poetry, devised theatre, and deep listening to develop work. Through a Black queer, non-binary lens and drawing on Anthropological research methods, they consider the many ways that Black folks connect to spiritual and embodied ways of knowing. Their artistry is a means to witness and honor their family’s legacies of farming, Church going, and storytelling. Mediums they employ include movement and choreography, writing, sound, installation, video, and performance. Utilizing and interweaving these forms, Maya cultivates intimate moments that make space for learning/unlearning of embodied trauma by centering joy, pleasure, and liberatory transformations. https://mayasimonez.com/work daily 0.75 2022-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/a5da0d79-f72a-4df1-a0c4-201a5fc5ddb9/Expansion+Works-3043.jpg Work Gallery Waters of Oblivion, Theater Mitu Expansion Works. Nov 2021. PC: Cinthia Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/4fa3bf75-6cb0-4196-adf5-252b6c5865fe/an+offering+to+water_cover.JPG Work Gallery an offering to water. Photo Collection, part of wild rivers move series. PC: Hadley Rosenbaum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/98a56e52-4517-4d34-b53a-1af9611bace2/Maya+Simone_Expansion+Works-3211.jpg Work Gallery Waters of Oblivion, Theater Mitu Expansion Works. Nov 2021. PC: Cinthia Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/111add0f-e0f9-4017-bc53-e6d43be414bb/Producing+Maya+Simone-ZaveMartohardjono-Territory-byScottShaw.jpg Work Gallery TERRITORY: The Island Remembers, Gibney 280 April 2022. Co-Director & Associate Producer. PC: Scott Shaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/28d20675-630f-41c2-89fa-b64a7d1792b9/CHILD+at+LIFEWORLD_pc+-+walter-wlodarczyk_WRB9365.jpg Work Gallery CHILD performs at LIFEWORLD, Feb. 2022. PC: Walter Wlodarczyk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/b5986119-615b-400c-9f7c-d199b22397dc/an+offering+to+water_Maya+Simone_flower+rocks_pc+Hadley+Rosenbaum.JPG Work Gallery an offering to water. Photo Collection, part of wild rivers move series. PC: Hadley Rosenbaum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/a9f73749-aee1-4595-b752-06e1f73fb0e7/Expansion+Works-3183.jpg Work Gallery Altar Installation. Waters of Oblivion, Theater Mitu Expansion Works. Nov 2021. PC: Cinthia Chen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/8ad058c0-0311-4bc1-b4a8-d58e44d148d7/Maya_Simone_field_recording.jpg Work Gallery Field Recordings, Chicago, IL. Dec. 2022. https://mayasimonez.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-08-28 https://mayasimonez.com/wild-rivers-move daily 0.75 2022-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/09807b70-6e3b-48f6-8832-4ef61b216555/an+offering.JPG wild river moves an offering to the water by Maya Simone Z. Crete, Greece (2021). Photo credit: Hadley Rosenbaum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/2ad02066-fe83-4f01-8592-591de458520f/an+offering+to+water_feet.JPG wild river moves - an offering to water. While collecting wild flowers in the mountaintop village of Agios Ioannis, I considered - what is joy and how does my blackqueer body retain it while in transit? The flowers tied to blue string adorn feet, neck, and chest in this experimental photo collection. This was created while in residence at Mudhouse Art (Crete, Greece) by Maya Simone with photographer, Hadley Rosenbaum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/23b8844f-3e08-4f32-bf99-b6ac70a75f30/Maya+Simone_the+way+back.png wild river moves - the way back. This solo is an exposition on lives lived by Black trans, femme and nonbinary folks across time. I embody a creature that wades through cycles, moments and memories while reveling in power untold that rests just beneath their skin. I wonder: what does this vessel that is my body hold? How do I carry all that my family, people, ancestors have given me? https://mayasimonez.com/consulting daily 0.75 2022-09-02 https://mayasimonez.com/state-of-water daily 0.75 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/80c78b91-cb96-4bfb-b16a-fd058dd867cf/an+offering+to+water_flowers.JPG state of water - state of water: brooklyn waterfronts How does water, water infrastructure, and flooding in your neighborhood impact you + your livelihood? state of water is an oral history project that documents and archives NYC residents’ stories and experiences of flooding and how we exist in relationship with water. This project centers how individuals, families and community members across Brooklyn neighborhoods on Lenapehoking exist in relationship with water and city infrastructure. Learn about the project’s ongoing development here. This image is from an offering to water. by Maya Simone with photographer, Hadley Rosenbaum. https://mayasimonez.com/state-of-water-brooklyn-waterfronts daily 0.75 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/5b9de721-c93c-48ef-8ca1-8664274b8591/IMG_8151.jpeg state of water: brooklyn waterfronts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/b62e756a-4787-46ef-ac6c-b3c5836c381d/state+of+water_squadcast+cover.png state of water: brooklyn waterfronts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/e929560b-5da6-4840-b69c-c1937dd8b1ed/state+of+water+at+PW_photo+cred+Shannon+Yu.jpeg state of water: brooklyn waterfronts https://mayasimonez.com/about-state-of-water daily 0.75 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/cdd318df-3ffe-4072-8dd1-ab317f4faf92/Maya+Simone_state+of+water+session+at+PW_by+Shannon+Yu.jpeg What is the state of water? Maya Simone speaks to a group of people during 'Second Sundays' at Pioneer Works. Oct. 9, 2022. Photo credit: Shannon Yu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a57a5618844e32d8cd38a0/99c7417b-ba77-4de3-86be-234a71a8c033/IMG_8164.jpeg What is the state of water? Maya Simone discussing state of water at a listening session during Pioneer Works' Second Sundays on Oct. 9, 2022. 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