hey there-
my name is marion.
I am an interdisciplinary dance artist currently living on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples, known today as Brooklyn ny.
I propose dance and dance making as salvor - cellularly, individually, sociopolitically, societally.
Amidst a creative process including movement, vocalization and collaging that are rigorously researched and rigorously intuitive, I dance and makes dances to dream and make dreams alive,
inviting you to journey terrains of my imagination.
my name is marion.
I am an interdisciplinary dance artist currently living on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape and Canarsie peoples, known today as Brooklyn ny.
I propose dance and dance making as salvor - cellularly, individually, sociopolitically, societally.
Amidst a creative process including movement, vocalization and collaging that are rigorously researched and rigorously intuitive, I dance and makes dances to dream and make dreams alive,
inviting you to journey terrains of my imagination.
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My parents are from Latin America, and they are Mesoamerican Archaeologists, so I was raised in many places, surrounded by massive remnants of the first civilizations in the Americas, my parents telling me stories about those who lived in these cities, the little witch in me sensing the ghosts and their spells. I was raised in multiracial, international community, amongst people who look, think and believe differently than each other, and at my core I believe multiplicity makes community and art grow stronger.
This lineage shapes the person I have become, the work I make, and the community I build. Watching my parents get dirty and exhausted from working in the sun all day, I grew up understanding work to be an intersection of the body and mind. Existing at the union of deep embodied intelligence and conceptual vitality, my work interrogates both the micro and the macro, or, deeply personal and deeply systemic themes of climate catastrophe, capitalism, the apocalypse and utopia, as well as my lineage, legacy and lessons learned from places and people- past, present and future. I situate my story and my body amidst the container of these vast global systems in my work. As a child I developed a vast imagination—in the back of a car driving for hours through rural Oaxaca, playing in the dirt at an archaeological site, so many airplane rides to visit family. I let myself be wild and take up space in my dreams. I began to understand dancing and making dances as a way to dream, to make dreams alive, and to invite others to witness your imagination. I believe art transforms the marrow in our bones and cells under our skin. My work embodies this ethos, forming relationships with collaborators at the speed necessary to build trust, and embracing the unknown, the weird, the rigor, the beautiful, the real. Antiracism and anticapitalist practices motivate my practice and how I facilitate the process of my work, while not living as prevalent themes. They remain the bones. |
banner photo by Whitney Browne of 'WOLF' at Danspace Project (March 2019)/ first photo by Maria Baranova / middle photo by Stefano Altamura of 'WOLF' at Base Art Space (Feb 2019)/ photo above by Poupay Jutharat at The Chocolate Factory Theater (June 2021) as seen in the New York Times July 1st 2021, full virtual article here