Maree ReMalia is a dance maker, performer, and teaching artist welcoming seasoned dancers and newcomers into movement to create opportunities to grow our capacities for care and connection. An adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, movement practice and performance has supported her in an ongoing process of self-discovery, liberation, connection, expression, healing, and care. She welcome
s individuals across disciplines, identities, and experience levels as a means of cultivating care in understanding ourselves, each other, and the world of which we are part. Her collaborative performance works have been commissioned by Gibney DoublePlus Festival (NY) under the curation of Bebe Miller and have been presented at venues such as American Dance Institute (MD), BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance (NY), Cleveland Public Theatre, Dance Place (DC), Kelly Strayhorn Theater (PA), La MaMa Experimental Theater Club (NY), Mahaney Center for the Arts (VT), Movement Research at the Judson Church (NY), New Hazlett Theater (PA), and Daegu International Dance Festival (South Korea). Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Investing in Professional Artists Grants Program, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, Cleveland Arts Prize Kathryn Karipides Scholarship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant, Opportunity Fund, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (a state agency), and The Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative. ReMalia has been a collaborative performer in the work of Heather Baur, Gabriel Forestieri, Bebe Miller, Michael J. Morris, Blaine Siegel and Jil Stifel, slowdanger, and Lida Winfield and she has danced in the work of Ohad Naharin, Christopher Williams, and Noa Zuk. She was a member of MegLouise Dance, MorrisonDance, and STAYCEE PEARL dance project and previously performed with the Richmond Ballet and Southern Ballet Theatre. Since earning her MFA at The Ohio State University, she was selected as the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer for Middlebury College Movement Matters Residency and has been on faculty with Bates Dance Festival, Colorado Conservatory of Dance, Dreams of Hope Q***r Youth Arts, Lion’s Jaw Performance + Dance Festival, Point Park University, University of Florida, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
