Maya Bodiley | Residency sharing

Dearly Beloved

Dearly Beloved is a journey of metamorphosis. A solo performance flirting between installation, physical theatre and dance. In a cocooned alchemic world of their own, an ambiguous character awkwardly distorts and transforms again and again in search of a ‘becoming.’ Interlacing autobiographical stories and influences from myth, popular culture and historical feminine archetypes, Dearly Beloved plays on the experience of the tangible and the surreal. Stemming from a physical inquiry whilst wearing a pink satin bridesmaid’s dress, the creative process is anchored by fostering an interdisciplinary methodology. Dearly Beloved aims to engender a tension through subverting imprinted patriarchal associations beside an unbridled character empowered through silliness and discovery.

In collaboration with Yolande Snaith - Dramaturge/outside eye.

Maya is a freelance dance artist, performer, maker and teacher based in Glasgow. She performs within Dance, Theatre, TV/Film and Festival/Club. Last year Maya graduated from NSCD with a Distinction level master’s, having completed a yearlong placement with Scottish Dance Theatre. Maya is passionate about sharing practice through artistic collaboration and investing in community centred initiatives. She has worked with visual artists, musicians and filmmakers as well as choreographers and developed work for both theatres and non-conventional performance spaces. Maya was an associate artist with Entelechy Arts Collective and has since worked within many Disability-led Art spaces. As a neurodivergent artist Maya looks at accessibility through practice and in the wider ecology of Dance. She values the creative licence to play, research and re-define language, embracing curiosity rooted in improvisation. Maya celebrates life’s multiplicity and is creatively fuelled by merging other artistic disciplines with dance. She seeks to cultivate joy from collective movement and is interested in performance as a vehicle which offers re-imagined universes. This year Maya has collaborated with Aya Kobayashi and Jack Dickson on an intergenerational community dance project, as well as working alongside choreographers such as Tess Letham, Malcolm Sutherland, Katrina McPherson and Joan Cleville. This summer Maya will perform with Scottish Dance Theatre in Roser Lopez Espinosa's 'The Flock' at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Supported through Dance Base’s Paid Artist Residency Programme

Host or Publisher Dance Base Scotland