Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American dance and vocal performer, choreographer, director, educator, and writer based in lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY. 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 Target Margin Theatre Institute Fellow, 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist 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 in 2000, and received U.S. Citizenship in 2019. Her practice re-roots the small, brown, diasporic Asian body through postmodern dance, pole, vocals, and ancestral mapping. Her journey of harmonious belonging in ‘kapwa’ (“shared one-ness”) exists within–yet juxtaposes–the eurocentric and patrionormative space.
Paspe’s choreography and performance has been presented internationally in Germany, Israel, 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 dance and vocal performance have been featured in The New York Times and Fjord Review.
