Marie Lloyd Paspe

2026-2027 Artist-in-Residence

Marie Lloyd Paspe
b. 1994, Singapore

Marie Lloyd Paspe is a dance artist, choreographer, and vocalist, merging ancestral memory and futurity in building worlds. Rooted in the diaspora, Paspe’s practice studies queer resistance and lost stories of migrant bodies across oceans and time, expanding collaborations in dance, voice, theater, and sacred spaces. 

Daughter of parents from Batangas and Iloilo, Philippines, Marie’s family migrated from Singapore to the Philippines, Canada, and the United States. As a descendent of nurses and farmers, Paspe’s work manifests through the hands of a laborious body: implying the brown, hypersexualized body as a revolution against the oppressor’s gaze. She activates multidimensional realms in choreography – incorporating vocal looping, sound making, pole dance, paper crafts, and embodied/imagined memories. Her performance-making explores kapwa (Tagalog for *shared one-ness) as a practice of radical empathy, in re-membering we are not separate from each other.

Paspe’s choreography has been presented at Center for Performance Research, Movement Research@Judson Church, Harlem Stage, Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA (USA), Umeå Jazz Festival (Sweden), SAVVY Contemporary (Germany), and UGNAYAN (Manila). She is a former performer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2018-2024, and a Bessie Awardee as a company member for choreographic contributions to “Deep Blue Sea.” Paspe is a research artist with Ifugao Center for Living Culture (Philippines), 2026 NYSCA Grantee, 2026 LMCC Arts Center Resident, 2026 Bechdel Project FIFE Fellow, 2025 NEFA National Dance Project Finalist, 2025 TOPAZ Arts Resident Artist, 2024 Harlem Stage Fellow, and 2022 A4 Jadin Wong Fellow.

marielloydpaspe.com / @mmmlloyd 

  • Artist in Residence
  • 2026 Artist in Residence
  • 2027 Artist in Residence
  • Spring 2024 MR@Judson Artist
A brown, Filipina woman looks straight forward towards you, with a grounded, kind, haunting expression. Her hair is black, slicked back and parted down the middle. She wears one silver chain earring, matching her choker necklace with black obsidian for protection. She wears a black leather harness underneath a red and purple traditional Filipiniana terno, made by traditional weavers near her mom’s home in Batangas. The terno butterfly sleeves are uneven, the one on her left shoulder has fallen to the side. Photo by Maria Baranova.
ID: A brown, Filipina woman looks straight forward towards you, with a grounded, kind, haunting expression. Her hair is black, slicked back and parted down the middle. She wears one silver chain earring, matching her choker necklace with black obsidian for protection. She wears a black leather harness underneath a red and purple traditional Filipiniana terno, made by traditional weavers near her mom’s home in Batangas. The terno butterfly sleeves are uneven, the one on her left shoulder has fallen to the side. Photo by Maria Baranova.