Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a Turkish-American poet, dance artist, and educator engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She is passionate about disability justice in a world where she’s seen firsthand how the most intelligent, kind, and vulnerable people are neglected and denied care.
She has served as a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, iMPACt Center for the Arts, Stapleton School for the Performing Arts, Center at Eagle Hill (MA), Surel’s Place (ID), and Tofte Lake Center (MN). She has been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells (UK) for her dance writing and by World Stage Design (Canada), 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York), and FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival for her choreography. Flasher-Düzgüneş received a B.F.A. in Dance (magna cum laude) from NYU Tisch and an M.A. in Dance Philosophy (with distinction) from the University of Roehampton, London, as a US-UK Fulbright Finalist.
She currently dances with MovingGround and pateldanceworks, teaches with CalPoets, Gallery Route One, and Roco Dance, and serves as the coordinator of Marin County’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program.
To learn more, visit Flasher-Düzgünes’ website.
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