STAR Collaboration

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) invites artists from visual, literary, musical, and performing arts genres to join Eagle Hill for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate novel learning opportunities.

The STAR residency program is open to artists at any stage of their careers—emerging artists, well-established artists, art teachers, and artists returning to former careers in the arts. STAR artists are educators at heart, who want to work with students while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others.

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Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş

Poetry / Dance / Film

Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a poet, dance artist, and filmmaker engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She has served as a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Stapleton School for the Performing Arts, and SAFEhouse Arts, and has been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells (UK) for her dance writing and by World Stage Design (Canada), 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York), and FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival (San Francisco) for her choreography.

Her poetry film, “strikethrough ‘21” is currently being featured as part of the Women Rising 2024 exhibition at the Drawing Room SF. Maxine received a B.F.A. in Dance (magna cum laude) from NYU Tisch and an M.A. in Dance Philosophy (with distinction) from University of Roehampton London as a US-UK Fulbright Finalist.

She dances with MovingGround, teaches with California Poets in the Schools and Gallery Route One Artists in the Schools, and directed the youth moder dance company, BodyLanguage, in the San Francisco Bay Area.