Vineyard Theatre debut. Originally from Japan, Maira was trained with the School of American Ballet in New York City on full scholarship. During her second year at the school, she won the prestigious Mae L. Wein Awards for Outstanding Promise. After school, Maira started her career as a professional ballet dancer at the age of 18 when she joined the Miami City Ballet. Maira’s first performance ever in the United States was in Susan Stroman’s DOUBLE FEATURE with the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center.
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“An alarm has been pulled,” Tyler Thomas, the project’s director, said in a video interview. “What we have tried to do is collect the spiritual, intellectual and performative tools to reimagine new ways of being, to say the old cannot be the same.”
The Sound in Their Ears? Black Thinkers Sharing ‘Lessons in Survival’
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A Vineyard Theater streaming project re-enacts verbatim interviews with James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and others to explore echoes between the past and the present.
