Maia Sauer

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Shorebirds (2025)




A duet crafted from improvisational poem-scores.

Shorebirds meditates on mermaids, mirrors, and hauntings. At the shoreline, the dance considers the dual myth and mundanity of water as a way to understand the shifting tides of our relationships with self and other.

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“A strange ordeal, to say the least...
aren’t you always haunted, ultimately, by yourself?” - Anne Dufourmantelle

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My back is a boat.

I walk on a landfill, not a metaphor.

A century of glass, bones, and combs, tide unconcerned with our physics.

I allow myself to be haunted.

Choice comes from the hull, I mean heart, cleaving shore clean open.


August 2, 2025 at Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY
Writing by Maia Sauer
Choreographed and performed with Cher Engmann
Photos by Phoebe Chase

email me - maia.sauer@gmail.com