Maho Ogawa is a Japanese-born multidisciplinary movement artist working in New York. Her work has delved into building a choreographic language based on nuances and isolated body movements, and she has built a database, "Minimum Movement Catalog". Ogawa uses body, video, text, computer programming, and audience-participatory methods to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously. Her recent works partly decontextualize and research the minimum movement in Japanese tea culture. She crafts public events inspired by Japanese tea rituals to build new thinking methods about "silence," providing a quiet but active mindset to heal and unite the community. Maho's works have been shown in Korea, Japan, and in the U.S., including Princeton University, Invisible Dog Art Center, JACK, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Center for Performance Research, to name a few. Her project was supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Culture Push, the Emily Harvey Foundation, Leimay, the Target Margin Residency, and New Dance Alliance. Ogawa is the recipient of the Artist-In-Residence program at Movement Research (2024-2026).

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