"Marie will be incorporating musical themes from STONE BELLY, a site-specific dance and music work involving composer treya lam and dancer-choreographer-muse Ching-I Chang, exploring the swallowing of sacredness as a way to protect our softest, most tender parts. Taking place inside the stone-filled belly of the Philippine crocodile, the work re-myths the Philippine legends surrounding the crocodile as an ancestral vessel between this world and the next, and the bodies of land/spirit swallowed in their migration to the next life. Marie will bring homemade shareable treats that will fill our own crocodile bellies.

STONE BELLY is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts
Council (BAC)."

Marie will provide shareable treats for the end of the jam.

ingredients: 

- egg white

- water

- coconut milk

- rice flour

- baking powder

- white sugar

- banana leaf

Dan Gorelick is a Brooklyn and Bay Area based musician who integrates his lifelong classical cello background with various technologies to explore the sonic possibilities between the two. He creates improvisational and emerging performances that can respond to the energy of the space. He performs in many different contexts, from contact jams to sound baths as well as more experimental electronic events. 

Dan is organizer and educator, creating community-oriented gatherings that cultivate new connections and creativity at the local level. He is a co-founder and organizer of the artist collective AV Club SF, and a member and organizer of the LivecodeNYC collective. He is a past student of the School for Poetic Computation, and a member of the NEW INC Year 10 cohort.

photo by Cindy Trinh

Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina-American choreographer, performance maker, dance and vocal artist, educator, writer, and activist. She is a 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist Fellow and from her time with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreography with the company for contributions to the 2021 production “Deep Blue Sea.” She was a 2023-24 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow, 2023 GALLIM Moving Artist Resident, and the 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow.

Marie was born in Singapore, grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and Boston, MA, has lived in NYC in almost every borough except Staten Island since 2012, and received U.S. Citizenship in 2019. She is of Batangueña lineage from her mom’s side from Mataasnakahoy, Batangas on the Philippine island of Luzon, and of Ilonggo lineage from her dad’s side from Iloilo City, Iloilo on the Philippine island of Panay.

Marie performed with choreographers Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (2018-2024), and Carolyn Dorfman (2016-2018); and musicians treya lam, Sugar Vendil, and Sirintip Tippan Phasuk, among other world building artists. Her choreography has been presented internationally in Germany, the Philippines, China; and nationally across USA. Recent highlights include Taikang Space (Beijing, China), TOPAZ Arts residency, choreographer for treya lam at Joe’s Pub and MASS MoCA, and choreography for Kyoko Takenaka at Lincoln Center.

photo by: Anna Azarov

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s joyously complex identity informs but does not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with a variety of multidisciplinary ensembles. their strident voice, politically charged songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label.

lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. lam has performed original music at Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, the Prospect Park Bandshell and the American Museum of Natural History and opened for Ani Difranco, Valerie June and Kaki King.

they are currently developing otherland - an interdisciplinary grief ritual and chamber protest album that explores grief as a catalyst for radical empathy, intersectional solidarity and repairing our relationship to the earth.