Beauty, Chaos and the Art of the Mundane: Maureen Whiting at TEDxTacoma

Maureen Whiting is a choreographer, dancer, and mathematician based in Seattle. Since 1997, she and her company have created new choreographic works at On the Boards, ACT Theatre (premiering "the myth series" at ACT in 2009), Seattle University (3-year residency), Annex Theatre, Seattle Dance Project, Cornish, and Velocity. Her work has been performed in Seattle, New York, Philadelphia and Europe. Maureen created film and video projects which were shown at Lincoln Center Library in New York (Dance on Camera), Seattle's Northwest Film Forum, Velocity's NextFest NW, and most recently released on Seattle Women in Film in 2008. Maureen grew up a ballet dancer and graduated with a degree in Mathematics in 1989 from Smith College and she currently teaches mathematics. Maureen's choreographic work combines original choreography with her global studies of dance, visual art studies of color and form, mathematics, and theatrical expression to create with an expansive sensibility. She actively pursues collaborations with visual artists, composers, and performers to expand the boundaries of live performance. Inspired by the rawness and beauty of life Maureen Whiting Dance seeks to deepen audience experience of performing arts and aims to create a rich visual, kinesthetic world that describes and amplifies human experience. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)