Maia is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer working across text, performance, and film. Her work has been recognized by MOtiVE Brooklyn, Movement Research, and the Vermont Arts Council, and her writing appears in The Brooklyn Rail, Strange Hymnal, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and editor of Lullaby Machine, a magazine and digital lullaby library. As a producer, Maia has supported films, installations, and performances at Provincetown Film Festival, SXSW, Life World, and various DIY spaces.

Her multidisciplinary practice explores the poetic ecologies of human and nonhuman bodies, considering our linked experiences of rest, grief, desire, and change.

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Shorebirds (2025)

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Shorebirds

My back is a boat
I walk on a landfill
Not a metaphor
A century of glass
Bones and combs
Tide unconcerned
Wth our physics
Choice comes
From the hull
I mean heart
Cleaving
Shore clean open

Shorebirds Shorebirds

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


HUGE DOOM! (2024)

Over breakfast, Olivia and Maia talk about the end of the world between bites. What is doom? What does that feeling obscure?

HUGEDOOM

I need a waking ritual
Open your mouth
And tomorrow?
My conviction soluble, salt-crusting my ankles

April 27, 2024 at the Off Center, Burlington, VT
Supported by the Vermont Arts Council
Choreography, Writing, and Performance by Maia Sauer and Olivia Pintair
Photos by Colter Carlstedt


a fish and flow (2023)

Two dancers explore the interplay between home, repetition, ease, and entrapment, alongside the construction and deconstruction of a modular bed frame, designed by Kig & Brendan.

Performed in the fishbowl of a gallery, the audience steps in to participate in the unfolding narrative.

a fish and flow

1. wake // swimming through pulp. light leaches, despite. fuel up.
2. ward // off what threaten to complete you. polish the silver. fists on the doorframe. one eye watching through the peephole.
3. welcome // inhale. wood unlocking something liquid in the heat.

a fish and flow

September 6, 2023 at Hudson Wilder, Brooklyn, NY
for playing house
Writing, Choreography, and Performance by Maia Sauer and C Green
Modular bed frame by Kig & Brendan


Lullaby Machine (2023)

When you scroll far enough, where do you end up?

Lullaby Machine

A lullaby is a doorway.
A lullaby is a disarming.
A lullaby is a welcoming of night.
A lullaby is a mother.

Lullaby Machine Lullaby Machine

May 6, 2023 at LifeWorld, Brooklyn, NY
Supported by MOtiVE Brooklyn’s Space Grant Program
Choreography & Writing by Maia Sauer
Performed by C Green, Daisy Maass, Cheryl Engmann, Sam Kann
Live Visuals by Sylvia Ke
Costumes, Set by Rayn Bumstead
Photos by Alexis Welch


Love-40 / Game Point (2021)

On trust and tennis

Love-40 / Game Point Love-40 / Game Point

December 3-4, 2021 at Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury, VT
Choreography by Maia Sauer
Lighting by Michael Abbatiello
Performed by Jaden Hill, Haegan O’Rourke, Charlie Caldwell, Liam Wynne, Asa Skinder, and Basil Alfaro
Photos by Alexis Welch

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