Mauriah Donegan Kraker is a midwesterner, a collaborative performance maker, a long-distance walker primarily invested in slow travel: walking around the block and through the city as a means of attending to choreographic unfolding of time cycles in the body + land. Her movement practices are shaped by her time competing as an Olympic-level athlete; endurance, duration + precise framing of body/land are drivers in the creation of place-based works. Mauriah's work has been presented in the Italian Alps, deserted building in Asia, under highway underpasses, along rivers + in prairie sites in the Midwest. She is a recent recipient of Ucross + MacDowell Fellowships and teaches at Lawrence University, (Appleton, WI), creating practices for the performing artist, athlete.
lineage m thinks of her time working alongside deb loewen, Jennifer Monson and kirsti simpson. She thinks of all the folks from the University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign during her MFA years, her time at Taipei National University of the Arts, and conversations with people and place: fishing villages in Costa Rica, mountains in New Mexico, cliff walking in Portugal, midnight forest walking in Wales, prairies and Walmarts and sidewalks in the States, the Croft Residency.