ABOUT

BIO
Maree ReMalia is a dance-maker, performer, and teaching artist. An adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, her work is rooted in exploring ways to build connection – with ourselves, each other, and the world of which we are part. She welcomes seasoned dancers and curious newcomers into movement practices that honor the richness of diverse bodies, lived experiences, and ways of being.

Her work-in-progress, WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER (WOWEO) is a National Performance Network Creation & Development Fund Project. Her collaborative performance works have been presented in the U.S. and abroad at venues such as BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Cleveland Public Theatre, Dance Place, Daegu International Dance Festival, Fayetteville Movement Festival, Gibney DoublePlus Festival, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Mahaney Arts Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, New Hazlett Theater, and Texas Dance Improvisation Festival. 

Maree is currently cast in slowdanger’s STORY BALLET and Lida Winfield’s Moving Dialogue Project. She has performed in projects directed by Heidee Lyn Alsdorf, Alicia Chesser and Steve Liggett, Ari Christopher, Gabriel Forestieri, Bebe Miller, Betsy Miller, Michael J. Morris, Elisabeth Roskopf, Blaine Siegel and Jil Stifel, Christopher Williams, and Noa Zuk and was previously a member of MegLouise Dance, MorrisonDance, and STAYCEE PEARL dance project. 

From 2015-2017, she was selected as the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer for Middlebury College Movement Matters Residency. She served as faculty and a guest artist at institutions and organizations like Bates Dance Festival, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Dreams of Hope Queer Youth Arts, Fayetteville Movement Festival, Point Park University, University of Florida, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, and University of Wisconsin. Maree earned her MFA at The Ohio State University (2011) and completed the Gaga Teacher Training program (2012).

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work as a dance artist is rooted in perseverance, pleasure, and belonging. As a Korean adoptee, I bring one perspective among many—navigating layered identities, cultural memory, and in-betweenness—into my creative process and teaching, exploring how movement holds complexity and connection shared across diverse experiences. Trained in ballet and later drawn to improvisation and interdisciplinary practices, I’ve worked to unlearn inherited hierarchies of form and virtuosity. I approach dance-making and teaching as spaces where structure and spontaneity meet—where ritual and risk, care and curiosity, awkwardness and beauty are all part of the process. My projects unfold across performance, pedagogy, and community engagement, weaving together movement, voice, writing, drawing, and somatic exploration. I invite participants into processes that emerge from who is present—shaped by shared attention, responsiveness, and the dynamics of each space. These spaces are intended to support people from varied backgrounds to feel welcome to contribute, question, play, and discover. Influenced by artists, educators, activists, and the communities I am part of, I see my work as a way to imagine, grieve, and celebrate together—expanding what dance can hold and who it can include.