maura nguyễn donohue

maura nguyễn donohue (she/they) directs the MFA in Dance at Hunter College/CUNY. She has been making and performing experimental performance works in NYC since 1995 and has been a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory since 1997. maura’s essay “Ambivalent Selves: The Asian Female Body in American Concert Dance” was published in Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance. maura was an inaugural contributor to Gibney’s Imaginings journal, writer-in-residence for Danspace Project 2021 and 2022, and contributed “a reclamation of the disposable” for Dance Studies Association’s 2023 “Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence,” as well as “somewhen else” for “Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study.” She is now finalizing a new essay on choreographer Benjamin Akio Kimitch’s Bessie-award nominated production of “Tiger Hands.”