To Be Present and Yielding with Marie Lloyd Paspe

Kapwa Konversations

Marie Lloyd Paspe originally from Singapore, Toronto, and Boston, is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary dancer, singer, choreographer, and concept creator in Queens, NYC. Marie currently performs and tours with @billtjonesarniezaneco based in Chelsea, NYC, choreographs her own works for stage and film, and teaches pilates. She has danced for Carolyn Dorfman, Renee Jaworski, Jae Mann Joo, and performed with @alvinailey Dance Theater. Marie graduated summa cum laude in Dance and Business from @fordhamuniversity /Ailey 2016.⁣

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Using deconstructive designs, vocals, projections, textures, and abstraction; Marie creates with a matriarchal world in mind and a reclamative story that unfolds. Eastern heritage versus Western dance technique pose dissonant synchronicities that show up as painfully pleasurable ironies, reflecting both her Filipinx identity and its colonization. Her interests in dancemaking are deeply tied to making sense of Philipine identity within foreign spaces, and how juxtapositions of contemporary and traditional worlds can meet to learn from each other. ⁣

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Marie’s work has been presented in Israel at Zichri Theater; various theaters such as @dixonplace, @queenstheatre, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Reeds Arboretum, and Smush Gallery in NYC and New Jersey; and commercial work online for most recently EBY and @titovlabel.

Marie is offering a weekly movement class called Structure + Integration that explores the different myofascial meridians of our bodies and how they integrate, relate, and respond to each other. You can connect with Marie on IG @mmmlloyd and through her website.