Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina‑American choreographer, dancer, singer, and research artist merging ancestral memory and futurity in building worlds. The daughter of parents from Batangas and Iloilo, Philippines, Marie’s family migrated from Singapore, Manila, Toronto, and Boston, with her making lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY home. Marie’s interdisciplinary work studies queer resistance and lost stories in our body’s fascia, expansing collaborations in dance, voice, theater, and sacred spaces. Her solo and collaborative work have been presented at CPR, Harlem Stage, Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Joe’s Pub; and internationally at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) and UGNAYAN (Manila). She is a former performer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2018-2024, and as a part of the company, received a Bessie for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to “Deep Blue Sea.” As a freelance performer, she has worked with inspiring artists Faye Driscoll, BAYE & ASA, Yin Mei, Sugar Vendil, Ching-I Chang, treya lam, Kyoko Takenaka, among others. She is a 2026 NYSCA Grantee, 2025 NEFA National Dance Project Finalist, 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Fellow, 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow, and 2025-26 TOPAZ Arts AAPI Dance Resident Artist.
Marie’s practice amalgamates lived experiences, lost stories, forgotten memories, misunderstandings, and curiosities of both body and earth. Her dance theater work manifests through dance, storytelling, and live sounds of intimate relationships, contrasting textures, tense ironies, and radical empathy, inviting audiences to re-imagine how the Filipino concept of kapwa or –I and the Other are One– can connect our world. Marie currently researches in between the United States and the Philippines: ancestral technologies, land-based practices, and mythologies of Philippine babaylans (shamans, that go by different names in different regions).
“Thank you thank you and thank you to everyone who made this residency (Black Artist Space to Create) possible. These past two weeks have been a blessing! Not only have I been able to deepen my own personal/artistic practices, I was given the space to connect with people that I love! I was given space to reflect on love, and to prepare for what this next year (2021) will bring! Shout out to New Dance Alliance, Modern Accord Depot and Angie Pittman for the time, the space, and opportunity! I am forever grateful! It felt like a good meal, with dessert!”
– Johnnie Cruise Mercer
New Dance Alliance
182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
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