https://meanwhilefilm.com Meanwhile Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:26:11 +0000 https://meanwhilefilm.com en https://meanwhilefilm.com/Jessica-Maffia Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:07:23 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Jessica-Maffia <img width="700" height="467" width_o="700" height_o="467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31c2b1596ec9b034650e50154263ba6410294c0b60ebcb5451a1c38f9df69252/JessicaMaffiaHeadshot.jpg" data-mid="206693317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/31c2b1596ec9b034650e50154263ba6410294c0b60ebcb5451a1c38f9df69252/JessicaMaffiaHeadshot.jpg" /> Learn more about Jessica:&nbsp; jessicamaffia.comJessica Maffia Jessica Maffia is a visual artist born and raised in New York City. She works across a wide variety of media to celebrate the familiar and honor the natural world of the city, through repetitive, meditative processes. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and is currently in the Flat Files of Pierogi Gallery in downtown Manhattan. She created the artwork for musician Childish Gambino’s two singles “Summertime Magic” and “Feels Like Summer.” Maffia is the recipient of numerous artist residency fellowships including at the Albee Foundation and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, as well as two grants from the Hells Kitchen Foundation. Her work is featured on the covers of Fabio Gironi's philosophy book “Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism” and poet Firas Sulaiman’s latest book “As if My Name is a Mistaken Sign.” She created a permanent mural installation for the Audubon Mural Project, her work was recently exhibited in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden show “For the Birds” and she is currently in the design phase of a NYC Percent for Art permanent installation in a new public school.&nbsp; Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Nate-Lewis Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:45:05 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Nate-Lewis <img width="1340" height="2048" width_o="1340" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c47e8ef92c79699c0c2ecb4110605bdb1fc631deff555404a02a6da5ea5b51c1/NL-HEADSHOT.jpg" data-mid="207820256" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c47e8ef92c79699c0c2ecb4110605bdb1fc631deff555404a02a6da5ea5b51c1/NL-HEADSHOT.jpg" /> Learn more about Nate:&nbsp; natelewis.artNate Lewis Nate Lewis is a multidisciplinary artist recognized for his intricate works on paper. He combines elements of photography, printmaking, sculpture and drawing. He sculpts patterns on paper that appear as soundwaves, currents, cellular patterns, or naturally occurring phenomena. He extends his work through video and sound. In 2008, Lewis graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University. He practiced critical care nursing&nbsp; for nine years. In 2010, while working as an&nbsp; Intensive Care unit nurse at INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Lewis, a self taught artist, started drawing for the first time. His initial works with paper utilized EKG rhythms. &nbsp; Lewis has been awarded residencies at Pioneer Works, Dieu Donne, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Art on the Vine, Fountainhead. He was the 2023 Art Hx artist in residence at Princeton University. His work has been exhibited at Fridman Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, David Kordansky, Rachel Uffner, Vielmetter, Ziddoun Bossuyt, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The California African American Museum, The Blanton Museum at the University of Austin Texas, The Cantor Museum at the University of Stanford, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Yale Center for British Art, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services’ Men of Change: Power, Triumph,Truth&nbsp;touring exhibit, among others. His work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 21C Museum Hotels, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Wellin Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art among others. He has lectured at the Phillips Collection, Princeton University, and Yale University, as part of Claudia Rankin’s Racial Imaginary Institute among others. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Josh-Daniel Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:16:29 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Josh-Daniel <img width="2316" height="3088" width_o="2316" height_o="3088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee3a7e16d404aa6ad4bc66312a05df6942314e8326fe352a27138cea76ee8c31/Daniel-Alexander-Jones.jpeg" data-mid="207819537" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee3a7e16d404aa6ad4bc66312a05df6942314e8326fe352a27138cea76ee8c31/Daniel-Alexander-Jones.jpeg" /> Learn more about Daniel:&nbsp; danielalexanderjones.com&nbsp; @danielalexanderjones <img width="4082" height="5653" width_o="4082" height_o="5653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deb9046f93a8bd2b4271f07646796000ab20e6d2e15ac8bd674ce8f7df36a754/Josh-Quat-Headshot.jpeg" data-mid="196278812" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deb9046f93a8bd2b4271f07646796000ab20e6d2e15ac8bd674ce8f7df36a754/Josh-Quat-Headshot.jpeg" /> Learn more about Josh: &nbsp; joshquat.com&nbsp; @joshquat Daniel Alexander JonesUnpredictable &amp; unbound, Daniel Alexander Jones’s wildflower body of artistic work is recognized by a wide range of communities. Jones extends traditions of art-making rooted in Black &amp; Queer histories of performance, music, literature, and civic practice. 2023 marks Jones’s 30th year of professional practice. This year, Jones released his new album AQUARIUS; presented MAY AS WELL BE A RAINBOW, an offering commissioned by the McCarter Theatre honoring Toni Morrison &amp; her archive; &amp; ALTAR NO. 3: I CHOOSE TO REMEMBER US WHOLE, an installation at The Henry Gallery in Seattle &amp; public processional produced by The Meany Center at UW. Jones’s past projects include BLACK LIGHT (Public Theater); DUAT (Soho Rep); RADIATE (Soho Rep &amp; national tour) and PHOENIX FABRIK (Pillsbury House Theatre). A collection of his plays and performance texts, LOVE LIKE LIGHT, is available from 53rd State Press alongside a connected volume of conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs entitled PARTICLE &amp; WAVE. Jones apprenticed with legendary artists Robbie McCauley, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Rebecca Rice, and Aishah Rahman. He is considered an innovator for his own contributions to the field, and a mentor to dozens of young artists. Jones is delighted to serve as a Producing Artist at CalArts’ Center for New Performance. He is on the board of the Jerome Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles. Josh Quat Josh Quat is a musician, songwriter, and producer based out of Brooklyn, NY.&nbsp; As a solo artist, he draws from a wide range of different influences, resulting in a unique sound that fuses elements of indie rock, pop, and psychedelic soul.&nbsp; He released his debut EP “These Little Dreams” in 2021, and continues to self-produce and release music under his own name in addition to collaborating with other artists on a wide variety of projects. Previously, he fronted the New York-based rock trio The Kristys, with whom he wrote and produced two EP's and a full-length album. With Daniel Alexander Jones, he has produced three full-length records, and contributed musically to the show “Black Light”. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Shamel-Tushrik Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:15:47 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Shamel-Tushrik <img width="3929" height="5894" width_o="3929" height_o="5894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0616a81bdab0bd920dba75de6b9be399d73218a6eacfe02e4dd48c5cc7e9db0a/Shamel_Pitts-Headshot.jpg" data-mid="196278649" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0616a81bdab0bd920dba75de6b9be399d73218a6eacfe02e4dd48c5cc7e9db0a/Shamel_Pitts-Headshot.jpg" />Learn more about Shamel:&nbsp; shamelpitts.com <img width="4000" height="3200" width_o="4000" height_o="3200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9e2405fad0085fc4bf715082b8b866186ca62c84390e53f435d7d68b7284250/TUSHRIK-HEADSHOT.jpg" data-mid="207819943" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9e2405fad0085fc4bf715082b8b866186ca62c84390e53f435d7d68b7284250/TUSHRIK-HEADSHOT.jpg" />Learn more about Tushrik:&nbsp; tushrikfredericks.info&nbsp; @bytushrikfredericks Shamel Pitts 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word artist, and teacher. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music &amp; Art and the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He is 2003 YoungArts Finalist and a first prize (level 1) winner of the YoungArts competition. Shamel then went on to receive his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance. He began his dance career in Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Shamel danced with Batsheva Dance Company for 7 years, under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin and is a certified teacher of Gaga movement language. He is an adjunct professor at The Juilliard School, a guest faculty member at Princeton University, New York University, Wesleyan University and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence and a 2021 New York Dance Award winner (The Bessies). Shamel is the Founding Artistic Director of TRIBE, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary arts collective. TRIBE is a 92Y Harkness Dance Center’s Artist In Residence for the 2020-2021 season. Shamel Pitts | TRIBE is also a New York Live Arts Live Feed artist in residence.Tushrik FredericksTushrik Fredericks is a recipient of Princess Grace Award (Chris Helman dance honor), nominated by TRIBE (Founding artistic director, Shamel Pitts) in 2021 is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up he found himself drawn towards the style ‘KRUMP‘. He graduated from the Peridance Certificate Program in NYC in June 2015 and has had the opportunity to work with Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY (Danielle Agami, Artistic Director), Sidra Bell Dance New York (Sidra Bell, Artistic director) and UNA Productions (Chuck Wilt). Tushrik was an assistant lecturer to Sidra Bell at The University of the Arts Philadelphia for Sophomore students (2016-2018). In May 2021 Tushrik received 3rd prize for dance at the SoloTanz Festival in Stuttgart for his first rendition of his self choreographed solo '(territory) of the heart' and in May, 2023, Tushrik performed the full rendition of '(territory) of the heart' at the Museum of African Diasporic Arts in Brooklyn, NY. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Teresita-Fernandez Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:42:27 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Teresita-Fernandez <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a20a657b2213f5a5dca0f3e470393e1d9668cf3bc5b5211bc12993c6a82a105/TF-headshot.jpg" data-mid="207817314" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a20a657b2213f5a5dca0f3e470393e1d9668cf3bc5b5211bc12993c6a82a105/TF-headshot.jpg" /> Learn more about Teresita:&nbsp; @teresita.fernandezTeresita Fernández Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what &nbsp;constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the &nbsp;more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies&nbsp; between matter, human beings, and locations, and her luminous work poetically&nbsp; challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and &nbsp;the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of &nbsp;Fernández’s work, and she confronts these themes in subtle ways, insisting on &nbsp;intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense. Imbuing the&nbsp; landscape with an anthropomorphic sensibility, Fernández has said “You look at the&nbsp; landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you; Landscape is more about what you&nbsp; don’t see than what you do see.” Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, &nbsp;including a Creative Capital Award; Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Award; Guggenheim &nbsp;Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; American Academy of Rome &nbsp;Fellowship (AFAAR); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant in &nbsp;Visual Arts. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the &nbsp;U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. She is the first Latina to serve on the 100-year-old federal &nbsp;panel, which advises the president and Congress on national matters of design and &nbsp;aesthetics. In 2016, she conceived and directed the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium with the Ford Foundation, which brought together artists, curators, museum directors, &nbsp;and scholars from across the country to discuss modes of visibility within cultural &nbsp;institutions. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York;&nbsp; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phoenix Art&nbsp; Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Harvard University, Boston; Modern Art Museum of &nbsp;Fort Worth; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de&nbsp; Málaga; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian Museum of American Art;&nbsp; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among&nbsp; others. Fernández has also created numerous large-scale public sculptures, including at&nbsp; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ford Foundation, New&nbsp; York; and Madison Square Park. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Juli-Vanderhoop Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:26:11 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Juli-Vanderhoop <img width="647" height="810" width_o="647" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/111bc346c960cdf3972cc321a51e5bcbec8e18ad7bf287e888ac44048ad685d1/juli.jpeg" data-mid="212658780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/647/i/111bc346c960cdf3972cc321a51e5bcbec8e18ad7bf287e888ac44048ad685d1/juli.jpeg" /> Learn more about Juli:&nbsp; www.orangepeelbakery.netJuli Vanderhoop Orange Peel Bakery is a native-owned bakery based on the Wampanoag lands of Aquinnah, Massachusetts, incorporating food traditions from around the world. &nbsp; Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Jesse-Krimes Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:44:02 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Jesse-Krimes <img width="3000" height="3603" width_o="3000" height_o="3603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c485170597619b21ec0867e107b99501fa1d2a5a0dbd6f598bea982b6322dc63/Jesse-Krimes-Headshot.jpg" data-mid="196252858" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c485170597619b21ec0867e107b99501fa1d2a5a0dbd6f598bea982b6322dc63/Jesse-Krimes-Headshot.jpg" /> Learn more about Jesse:&nbsp; jessekrimes.com&nbsp; centerforartandadvocacy.org Jesse Krimes Jesse Krimes is a Philadelphia based artist, curator, and advocate whose work explores how contemporary media shapes and reinforces societal mechanisms of power and control, with a particular focus on criminal and racial justice. Shortly after graduating from Millersville University, he was indicted by the U.S. government on drug charges. While serving a six-year prison sentence he produced and smuggled out numerous bodies of work, established prison art programs, and co-created multi-racial artist collectives. After his release, he founded and currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Art &amp; Advocacy, the first and only national fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists. Krimes’ work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Red Cross Museum, Zimmerli Museum, Newport Art Museum, and Aperture Gallery. His curatorial practice is focused on elevating other system impacted artists, and he also successfully led a class-action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for charging formerly incarcerated people predatory fees after their release from federal prison. Krimes won an Emmy Award for his documentary “Art and Krimes by Krimes.” He was also awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Creative Capitol, Art for Justice Fund, Independence Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Newport Art Museum, OZ Art NWA, Kadist Art Foundation, The Bunker Artspace, and the Agnes Gund Collection. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Mel-Chin Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:18:24 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Mel-Chin <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18a6686afe8b2234bfa18909140e7a850ca29e4055f3bc3c3c8e26b85e364aae/MC-HEADSHOT.jpg" data-mid="208222227" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18a6686afe8b2234bfa18909140e7a850ca29e4055f3bc3c3c8e26b85e364aae/MC-HEADSHOT.jpg" /> Learn more about Mel: &nbsp; melchin.org Mel Chin Mel Chin’s art employs a wide range of approaches, from unique, idiosyncratic objects to operations that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork. He insists that projects in the public field are dosed with a rigorous pragmatism and an elevated poetic.&nbsp; Studio work is notably without a signature style resulting in works suffused with a deeply considered restraint or excess to promote an unpredictable aesthetic. His Revival Field (1990) pioneered in the field of "green remediation," the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. From 1995-1998 he formed the GALA Committee, a collective that produced In the Name of the Place a public art project conducted on American prime-time television. 9-11/9-11 (2007) won the Pedro Sienna Award for Animation in Chile. His nationwide initiative Fundred gave tangible form and political value to the voices of 500,000 individuals opposed to the conditions that gives rise to childhood lead-poisoning. He founded S.O.U.R.C.E. Studio (2017) to both enlarge the dialogue and realize sustained engagement with community and environment. His 2014 ReMatch retrospective curator, Miranda Lash, described his practice as a mutative strategy, depending on concepts to derive the materials of its realization, from actions, to films, to objects, as necessary. In 2018 he presented Unmoored and Wake in Times Square, New York City, creating a visual portal into a future of rising waters and concurrently he had a 40-year-survey exhibition at the Queens Museum, NYC, that Hyperallergic, the online arts magazine, named the best art exhibition of 2018. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees, including the MacArthur Fellowship, 2019, and election to the The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2021.&nbsp; Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Beverly-Price Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:17:58 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Beverly-Price <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2ad82a9f82e875a289cbe6494cb641c0b9245a24b2ce578df94f5f0856cf9c0/Beverly-Price-Headshot.jpeg" data-mid="196278896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2ad82a9f82e875a289cbe6494cb641c0b9245a24b2ce578df94f5f0856cf9c0/Beverly-Price-Headshot.jpeg" /> Learn more about Beverly: &nbsp; beverlypricephoto.com Beverly Price Beverly Price, a proud native of Washington, D.C., is a visionary photographer and a dedicated creative activist. In 2022, Price earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Photographic &amp; Electronic Media from Maryland Institute College of Art. Price’s artistic journey is firmly rooted in her mission to amplify the voices of the youth and the black community, fostering meaningful community engagement through her compelling photography. Her regular contributions to communities such as Barry Farms, Congress Heights, and various historic neighborhoods across Washington, DC, exemplify her deep commitment to her craft and the causes she champions. Beverly Price is a recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including the esteemed Smithsonian James E. Webb Scholarship and the Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship. She has also been honored with the 2020 AIGA Design World Studio Scholarship, a testament to her outstanding creative prowess. Currently, as a 2023 Art for Justice &amp; Right of Return Fellow, Beverly Price continues to channel her passion and talent towards creating a more just and equitable society. Her photographic works have been shown in renowned institutions, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Anacostia Art Center, the Maryland Institute College of Art, American University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and various others, leaving an indelible mark on the world of art and activism. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more! https://meanwhilefilm.com/Ching-I-Marie Thu, 16 May 2024 19:04:55 +0000 Meanwhile https://meanwhilefilm.com/Ching-I-Marie <img width="3697" height="4621" width_o="3697" height_o="4621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bf76fcfa3e8935eb45a07494e47acdac884007d860ea820eb38ab9d530800e3/IMG_1989.JPG" data-mid="211087759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bf76fcfa3e8935eb45a07494e47acdac884007d860ea820eb38ab9d530800e3/IMG_1989.JPG" />Photo credit: Erica MacLean&nbsp; Learn more about Ching-I: &nbsp; @tax1050 chingichangbigelow.com <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a6b09eb3fc7f8d9d2548210a6592b97960a327c3bc97b4e80b8416583375ce6/MELANI_MARIE_TAN-BLACK_0096.jpeg" data-mid="211392813" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a6b09eb3fc7f8d9d2548210a6592b97960a327c3bc97b4e80b8416583375ce6/MELANI_MARIE_TAN-BLACK_0096.jpeg" />Learn more about Marie: &nbsp; @mmmlloyd marielloydpaspe.com Ching-I Chang Made in Taiwan, active in America and quiet places. MFA. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has danced for Susan Marshall, Gesel Mason, Punchdrunk, and many brilliant artists. She was an original cast member of Sleep No More NYC; as well as a rehearsal director of SNM Shanghai. Most recently, she has toured with ANIKAYA to Palestine and African countries. Along with performing, teaching has been her sacred process of learning. She was a visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and an adjunct at U of California San Diego. She is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Yoga and Yoga Nidra Facilitator. She has bathed in contact improvisation, meditation and yoga since 2005 with occasional teaching and sharing with others. In her free time, she practices calligraphy, plays with voices, and makes bad arts. And she loves bananas.Marie Lloyd Paspe Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American dance and vocal performer, choreographer, director, educator, and writer whose practice is rooted in radical empathy and sustainable revolutionary futures. Paspe is Bessie-awarded for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane’s "Deep Blue Sea,” a performer with BTJ/AZ since 2018, 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist Fellow, Target Margin Theatre Institute Fellow, 2023 GALLIM Moving Artist Resident, and the 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow. Of Filipina descent, she was born in Singapore, grew up in Mississauga, Canada, migrated to Bellingham, MA, and received U.S. Citizenship in 2019. Her work erupts the colonized brown Filipinx body as a site of liberation through re-turning to land, spirit, and each other. Her practice is on imagined and lost memories found in the genetic manuscripts of the body’s fascial maps, committing to kapwa (Tagalog for ‘I and the Other are One’) to connect across the gulf of continents, time, and lost stories as a migrant daughter of Batangueña and Ilonggo parents. Paspe’s choreography and performance has been presented internationally in Germany, the Philippines, China; and nationally across NYC and USA. Recent features include Taikang Space (Beijing, China), artist-in-residence at TOPAZ Arts, choreographic director for treya lam at Joe’s Pub and MASS MoCA, and choreography for Kyoko Takenaka at Lincoln Center. Her performance has been featured in The New York Times and Fjord Review. Sign up for our newsletterStay up to date on Meanwhile screenings and more!