BIO
Maree ReMalia is a dance maker, performer, and teaching artist. A Korean adoptee raised in Ohio, she explores the moving body as a site of memory, presence, and possibility, bringing personal histories into conversation with the forces that shape our lives. She welcomes seasoned dancers and curious newcomers alike into shared movement practice.
Produced by Hatch Arts Collective, her forthcoming solo WITH OURSELVES, WITH EACH OTHER is supported by a National Dance Project Production Grant and the National Performance Network Creation and Development Fund co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Bates Dance Festival, Hatch, and NPN. Recently, she collaborated with Kate Green and Richard Zimmerman on a Tulsa Artist Fellowship-supported project in which 19 performers activated Zimmerman’s public art installation, Assembly. Her choreographic 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, NYLA Live Artery Festival, New Hazlett Theater, and Texas Dance Improvisation Festival.
Maree is currently cast in slowdanger’s STORY BALLET and Lida Winfield’s Moving Dialogue Project and is a member of Transitive State Movement Collective. She has performed in projects directed by Heidee Lyn Alsdorf, Alicia Chesser and Steve Liggett, Ari Christopher/Tulsa Modern Movement, Gabriel Forestieri, Bebe Miller, Betsy Miller, Michael J. Morris, Elisabeth Roskopf/JeeYeong Dance, 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, Inverse Performance Art Festival, Point Park University, University of Florida, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma, and University of Wisconsin. Maree earned her MFA from The Ohio State University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I approach dance as a way of practicing attention, relationship, and possibility. Through dance making and facilitation, I explore how movement can hold layered identities and lived experience while offering space to navigate complexity, connect across difference, and discover more expansive ways of being with ourselves, each other, and the world we move through. Trained in ballet and later drawn to improvisation and interdisciplinary practices, I aim to cultivate creative processes that support shared inquiry, collective knowledge, and a wide range of physical expression. I see dance-making and teaching as spaces where structure and spontaneity meet—where ritual and risk, care and curiosity, awkwardness and beauty are part of the process. My work unfolds across performance, teaching, 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 in feeling welcome to contribute, question, play, and discover. Influenced by artists, educators, activists, and the communities I move within, I see my work as a way to imagine, grieve, and celebrate together—expanding what dance can hold and who it can include.
