Maureen Fleming (born in Japan), is an American dancer, performance artist, and choreographer from New York City. She studied butoh dance in Japan and is known for her meditative, dreamlike solo dances. The New Yorker magazine has called her "perhaps the foremost American practitioner of Butoh." The Boston Globe said: "As earth goddesses go, she's the real black madonna." The NEW YORK TIMES states: "Fleming ... seemed to transcend the material world and enter the realm of pure spirit ... wondrous choreographic metamorphosis".