Maree ReMalia’s original choreographic works created in collaboration with dancers and artists from across disciplines in theaters, site responsive locations, institutions, community and multidisciplinary spaces.
Performance collaborations in the work of choreographers and interdisciplinary artists in theater,
site-responsive, gallery, and community-based contexts.
“Engagingly titled The Ubiquitous Mass of Us, this premiere seriously questioned “the bounds of our identities and the way we take up space.” But it was also symbolic of the creative process, where young artists have to learn to extend themselves, breaking down any barriers, both personal and communal, that might exist in producing a work of art. It was obviously a subject near and dear to the hearts of the performing collective, nine strong, including Ms. ReMalia herself, and so representative of the talent and breadth of the Pittsburgh arts scene. Their passion and commitment drove the choreography and the staging, which took full advantage of both trained dancers and movers for whom dance was a second (or third) language.”
– Jane Vranish, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
“On a cold January afternoon in the Middlebury College dance theater, students stepped onto the dance floor in stocking feet. These weren’t veterans of the dance program — rather, they were students of economics and sociology and theater, among other disciplines. And they were ready to unveil works in progress outside their usual scopes of study. One student launched into a spoken word and movement piece in response to a news story about privilege and wealth on college campuses. Another two rocketed into a Mad Libs-inspired improv game. All were participants in Andrew W. Mellon interdisciplinary choreographer Maree ReMalia’s J-Term class, the theme of which was “Collaboration in the Arts.” Along with collaborators from the Pittsburgh-based Hatch Arts Collective Paul Kruse and Adil Mansoor, ReMalia and her students spent the month exploring what happens when musicians dance, or choreographers write, or economists build sculptures.”
– Kathryn Flagg, Middlebury News
“ReMalia’s performers Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson are part of a sound/performance duo called slowdanger. In now is now she has them jumping rapidly from moment to moment, expressing a curiosity about the multiplicity inside any single instant. The resulting work is a rapidly shifting series of ideas. The second an idea approaches full definition the dancers bound off to a new one. Thompson congeals in the final moments of the work as she stands at a microphone, subtly shifting her hips and torso while slowly pulling her hair up over her head and singing. It’s dreamy, sexy, and unreal.”
– Maura Donohue, Culturebot
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