Is there a question, or are we pretending there is no question?
MAYA Milenovic Workman, is a Slovene-American writer, director, choreographer, former dancer, and a Guggenheim fellow (2020). To Maya MW there is no difference between movement, physical theater, writing, directing and creation.
“I found a junction across impulse produced by avant-garde jazz music unified with theater, poetry and film. To me: improvised sound, merges with movement and words, in a “expanding spiritual greatness.” Maya was born in Maribor, Slovenia where she studied ballet, music (piano), and visual arts. She earned BA&MA at the New School University (NYC), and Graduated from London School of Contemporary Dance (UK)
Maya MW is in postproduction of Immortal, the Crusade of Reggie Workman. She is continually helping young people to become true to themselves through Dance, Drama, and Drumming!
Maya MW directed: and wrote, Ophelia’s Ocean (Trinity, NYC, 2025); 2018, Dos Worlds (Trinity, NYC) , www.dosworlds.com (NYC), 2010: I Hear with My Eyes (SNG Mb: Slovenia), 2012: Guernica Continuum (SNG Mb: Slovenia), and collaborated on Virtual Truth (Bunker, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013). 1985 - 2010: Come and Go, HP Madame (Picasso), Jus Al’ Mae (Picasso), Mother Courage (Brecht), Closed Door (Sartre), Tristan and Isolde (Legend), First Day 47, (Time & Space) Ogun's Ardor (Legend), Footfalls (Beckett), Abstractions (Brecht/Euripides/Bosch - Carnegie Hall), Streams (Cooper Union) , Moon Above Mississippi, (SNG, MB), M&M (SNG, MB), Jocasta (SNG Maribor), Produced and performedat: Carnegie Recital Hall, Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, Washington Square Church, Cooper Union Great Hall, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Village Gate, Leighton House (GB), and SNG MB - State Theaters in Slovenia; Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, UK, and Italy.
Collaboration with legendary jazz musician started in 1983 and is on going.
Collaboration with theater director Tomas Pandur in Scheherazade, Hamlet (Shakespeare), Faust (Goethe), Noah’s Ark (Cultural Capitol, Thessaloniki, Greece).
Maya MW is co-founder and Artistic/curriculum Director: Montclair Academy of Dance & Laboratory of Drum, and Drama:www.madlom.org
Maya MW holds MA in Media, BA in Liberal Arts (New School, NYC). BA, equivalent, London School of Contemporary Dance (UK). Studied: with Merce Cunningham (June Finch, Robert Kovich, Chris Komar, Diane Frank). “Multiple intelligences theory” with Howard Gardner (Project Zero, Harvard), Butoh Dance with Sankai Juku, and graduated as a te
A false idea: HAVE A GOOD DAY!
A SQUARE MEMORIAL FOR A MAN
The spectators are embraced in wooden truth They stand in lines across the bridge before it crumbles It all happens again, century after century And when it happens The cavernous spaces evaporate around the corners of a castle perhaps in Denmark, or in Spain. I don’t know. Drafty windows clear the air. They are wrapped in the illusion of senseless depth.
MIRROR IN THE MEADOW
The stretch across the mountain Becomes too hard to bear She had to come back Through painted windows As a shadow of what she thinks that she might want to be. The landscapes are colored with water. At one point she lifts in the air, weightless. He who was here came and left. Built from the blocks and cavernous dirt embraced in wooden truth. You stand in the lines across the bridge. Before it crumbles….