Maya M. Carroll

Contemporary for Dancers

Training for Dancers

Bio

Maya Matilda Carroll is a choreographer, dancer, mentor and teacher, based in Europe since 2004. For over twenty years she has been creating independent dance work and performance, collaborating with dancers, musicians, actors, poets and visual artists. She has been a member in Allen’s Line company, directed by Julyen Hamilton, since 2013. Maya’s work is centred on her embodiment of sound/music, the profound physicality and exploration of vocabulary in her pieces. Maya formed The Instrument (2011) with her life and artistic-work partner; composer / musician Roy Carroll. Their long-standing collaboration is a unique experience of detail and atmosphere within which Maya continues to expand her choreographic language. Through The Instrument Maya initiates and is involved in productions that range between independent projects and larger scale commissions. As a teacher, Maya leads master classes and workshops in Europe and abroad, extensively developing her teaching alongside her artistic work; drawn from and towards the human, social and poetic manifestation of the dancing body.

www.theinstrument.org

Class description

The Instrument classes offer an in-depth physicality and exploration of body and mind in our compositional space/time. Our practice engages with the study of improvisation through flow, precision and bodily wisdom; as a pathway to dance making and performance. Involving attentiveness, musicality, collective and individual awareness; we work with presence, choice, vision and the interplay between movement and image. Involving these elements in the process of dance making, the work draws upon relationships between people, environments and choreographic narratives.

Maya teaches classes / workshops in Europe and abroad, for free-scene platforms as well as academies and international companies. In the past twenty years Maya has been a guest teacher at HZT University (Berlin), Staatstheater Kassel (Johannes Wieland), Theater Greifswald (Jan Pusch), Impulstanz (Vienna), Fabrik Potsdam, Carte Blanche (Bergen), Présomptions de Présences (Paris), CND Lyon, CNSMD Lyon, CCNR Rillieux (Cie Yuval Pick), Le Pacifique / CDC (Grenoble), Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective (Glasgow), SOZO (Kassel), Kelim Choreography Center (Bat-Yam, IL), Hochschule für Musik und Tanz (Köln), SEAD Academy (Salzburg) and Folkwang University (Essen).

Photo Credit: Cristina Marx