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freelance performance artist based in slc
previously with @saltdance
@nasmfitness CPT
@jacobspillow alumni ‘20, ‘22

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some moments from BK SUMMER 2026 create + connect // @_bigkids 🩶

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The Marvelous 🪩MAEVE FRIEDMAN🪩 teaches Contemporary Release this Saturday! Join us October 10th, 10-11:30 AM at Performing Dance Center in SLC/Millcreek for some delicious dancing and lovely community!

🤸🏽‍♂️CLASS will warm up the body using several movement methods. A slow beginning will allow us to arrive, wake up the mind, and drop into our bodies’ softness and specificity. Borrowing from contemporary Floorwork, release technique, Counter Technique, yoga and the breath, we will explore effort qualities, momentum + speed, flow, weightedness, ease, and voluptuous movement. Dancers will be encouraged to lean into what feels good, while seeking clarity, texture, and risk, challenging our own individual range of movement. Expect phrasework, fun music, inversions, and lots of joy in dancing together, celebrating our bodies and cheering each other on. 🤸🏽‍♂️✨

✨MAEVE FRIEDMAN✨ (she/her) is a freelance dancer, writer, and yogi based in Salt Lake City, originally from Maryland and Maine. She received her BFA in Dance from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2023, and has since found a home in SLC, where she adores the intimate collaborations that have unfolded organically in this small and eager city. Maeve has danced with SALT2 Contemporary Dance Company, Utah Opera, and Fleet Co-Operative, and has performed works by Courtney Mazeika, Noelle Kayser, Kellie St. Pierre, Megan O’Brien, Nicole Von Arx, David Dorfman, Alex Ketley, Brandon Alley, Trisha Brown, Shen Wei, José Limón, Igal Perry, and others. She currently collaborates on various site-specific, experimental live dance and film projects with Constance Anderson/Sock Opera Dance Company. As a maker, Maeve and her choreographic partner Mads Ward have presented work through Playground Dance Project, SLCPL’s series 12 Minutes Max, Monday Movement Lab, and Queer Spectra Arts Festival. Maeve is passionate about building community and opportunities for training in the city.

Learn more about Maeve and class at TheWoods.dance/class (link in bio)

🎥 by @marlee__stephens_
#thewoodsdanceproject #contemporarydance #slcutah #comedancewithus

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You’ll Grow Into It 🌹
9.25.26

Huge thanks to everyone who came 💙
and s/o @sister.slc for helping me make my vision come to life!

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Golden Birthday for these two!! Hard to put to words the joy it is to be your mom. I hope this day, this year, this life is everything you dream of. @megan_boyette @lorraina_boyette

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About time for an Utah dump!!!! @campfruity … I love you bad

Many reasons to love traveling with @francesca_dong but the 6 hour turn time on photos taken on digicam and sent out to the subjects is incredible and needs to be studied…

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third summer of camp #videography by @realratmentality

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some favorites from last season

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Put Your Nose To The Wall 🔔
By @keily_tafiti and @gr4cel4nd
Dancing with @quincieb @lorraina_boyette and @tyrese.sheriff
For @playground_danceproject

What a joy in the heat of July to experience the excellence of our community!
Huge thanks to @roxannegray.co for facilitating such a memorable and grounding experience ☀️

Photos by @toddcollinsphotos

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study, dance, werk #semester1done

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July was all goofs.

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Join us for CLASS w/ ⚡️COURTNEY MAZEIKA⚡️| Two Saturdays, August 1 + 8! 10-11:30 am at Performing Dance Center! We are so lucky to have Courtney as a regular teacher for The Woods! She teaches a beautiful, approachable class that inspires curiosity, play, and rigor in the details!

💫ABOUT: This class will begin with guided movement improvisation and score structures, and finish with workshopping a phrase of material. We will move in connection with our sensations, imaginations, the space, objects, and other people in the room. The class will provide ways to dive into our own bodies and develop a practice together that values play, listening, virtuosity, and curiosity.

✨COURTNEY MAZEIKA is a movement artist, maker, and educator originally from Houston, TX. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin, then trained under Summer Lee Rhatigan at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. As an independent artist, she has had the opportunity to perform internationally in original works by Tom Weinberger, Bobbi Jene Smith, David Harvey, Christian Burns, LoneKing Projects, Alex Ketley, Ben Green (Hind Legs), Megan O’Brien and more. Courtney has had the honor of being on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, and served as director of the SALT Pre-Professional Training Company. She worked as a rehearsal assistant for Tom Weinberger’s original creations at Staatstheater Kassel (DE), SUNY Purchase, Arts Umbrella (VBC), Nuova Officina della Danza, and more. She has also served as rehearsal director at Oquirrh West Project, NWA Ballet Theatre, and SALT Contemporary Dance. Her independent choreography has been shared at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (2nd prize), 801 Salon SLC, 12 Minutes Max SLC, Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival (WA), Austin Dance Festival, University of Texas at Austin, Utah Valley University, Westminster University, Oquirrh West Project, SALT Contemporary Dance, SALT2, and more...

Learn more about Courtney and class at TheWoods.dance/class (⛓️‍💥 in bio!)

Join us! 💕

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My week with @jimvincent.ca and @omar.roman.dejesus 💕 at @theworkshop.dance !
Grateful for @courtneywrightanderson @balletkylie and @once_uponadance for making this happen!

Can you count how many eyes are closed in the last picture?? 😃😃

Go check out @once_uponadance ‘s books!
^The art

The artist^

@omar.roman.dejesus gave us homework #obsessed

My attempt at @indenavarrette ‘s ☹️

@sofia.moretti_ ‘s attempt

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