Marissa Perel has been performing and writing within NYC's downtown dance and music communities for nearly a decade. She has collaborated with choreographers, video artists, and composers at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop, St. Mark's Church, Judson Church, Jacob's Pillow, cakeshop, Goodbye Blue Monday, galapagos artspace, Roosevelt Island, Chez Bushwick, and her former home, Aqui the Bushwick, as well as other loftspaces, and alternative venues. In 2006, she directed Burden, a performance and installation event at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Her literary work has been published in Tarpaulin Sky, and is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly and Xcp: cross-cultural poetics journal. She has also contributed to many DIY zines, and self-publishes her work out of polter press. She is a recent graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she collaborated with poets from the St. Mark's Poetry Project community, as well as musicians at such venues as Rhinocerpolis in Denver, CO. Perel is a graduate candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Marissa Perel