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接觸即興舞醬CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM: JAN 9TH WITH MARIE + TREYA

  • Open Arts Studio 68 Jay Street (Studio 605A) Brooklyn, NY, 11201 United States (map)

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Entrance door closes at 7pm, please arrive before then.

photo by Cindy Trinh

Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American dance and vocal performer, choreographer, educator, and writer based in lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY. Paspe is Bessie-awarded for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's "Deep Blue Sea," 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow, 2023 Gallim Moving Artist Resident, and 2024 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow.

Her work re-roots the diasporic Asian body, focusing in harmonious belonging in ‘kapwa’ (“I and the Other are One") that exists within and juxtaposes the patrionormative space. Paspe’s work was presented in Germany, Israel, the Philippines, and China; and nationally in NYC, Boston, LA, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and Minneapolis. Features include film performance at Taikang Space (Beijing, China), resident artist at TOPAZ Arts (Queens, NYC), choreographic director for treya lam at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA). Press features include The New York Times and Fjord Review.


photo by: Anna Azarov

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose expansive and intersecting identities inform but do not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with ensembles across a variety of disciplines. their atmospheric voice, liberation oriented 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. Smithsonian Magazine states lam’s work “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope”.

lam is currently developing otherland - an audiovisual chamber-folk album and multidisciplinary ritual on healing in the wake of grief and loss, radical self acceptance, and transformation through individual and collective healing. this work is supported by NYSCA, NYC’s Women’s Fund and Joe’s Pub’s New York Voices Commission.

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 Righteous Babe Records. lam has supported and shared stages with Ani DiFranco, Valerie June and Kaki King and has performed original music at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCA and the Newport Folk Fest.