Episode 03: Marie Lloyd Paspe
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 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company 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 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Marie graduated summa cum laude in Dance and Business from Fordham/Ailey 2016.
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.