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接觸即興舞醬CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM: MAY 13TH WITH MARIE + ZINGHA

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

RSVP link will open in May

*Dear ones, please RSVP to help us maintain a safe capacity.

Contribution based, pay $5-20 at the door via Venmo or cash. Funds go to nourishment of musicians, space rental + snacks.

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

photo by Cindy Trinh

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.

Zingha Love with A Sound Sol creates multidimensional rest spaces for those who services others while moving through a well curated flow that has been developed over 4 years of Transformational Life Coaching ,Yoga, Reiki, and CBT Mindfulness studies. Blending Ayurvedic influenced Vinyasa Yoga with ancient breath-work techniques, Zingha has created her own yoga flow and sensation sound emporium. Using alchemy crystal healing bowls, contact movement, different percussion instruments she activates the self within the body.