with deep explorations in movement, sound, and design, spencer creates keenly nuanced work.
​-New York Dance & Performance ('Bessie') Awards 2023

​marion spencer (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary dance artist living in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn.​ Through a weaving of artistic mediums including movement, vocalization and installation, marion's work creates poetic ecosystems within which to wonder, feel & dream, excavating the personal, the systemic, the unknown, the wild, the experimental, the cellular, the beautiful. Her current research centers on the intersection of anticapitalist, abolitionist & leftist discourse that radically critiques and reimagines our current world, with interdisciplinary dance making practice- in short, constructing imagined utopias from dystopia. marion makes to make sense of and move toward the horizon of a better world.

marion is a 2023 New York Dance & Performance (‘Bessie’) Awards Nominee for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer. Her work has been presented in NYC by Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Gibney & Danspace Project, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, Dance Now NYC, Dance HOLO and the Domestic Performance Agency. She has been an Artist in Residence at Amherst College, The Field Center, Mana Contemporary, New Dance Alliance, Gibney & The Chocolate Factory Theater, among others.

​As a performer, marion has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|portier, Laura Peterson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Tyler Rai and as a guest performer with David Dorfman Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has been on faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney, Peridance, Greenwich Country Day High School, MOtiVe Brooklyn, Freeskewl and hosted her own class outdoors in Prospect Park from 2020-2021. She has been a guest teaching artist at University of Maryland-College Park, Amherst College, University of Washington-Seattle, Velocity Dance Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham Rep, Louisiana State University, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Lusher Charter High School and Dancing Grounds. marion has toured her performance work and teaching practice nationally to Seattle, Catskill NY, Amherst MA and to her former home- New Orleans LA. 

In addition to choreographing, performing and teaching dance, marion teaches Pilates, and is currently in training to become a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. She is currently a graduate student at New York University’s Tisch School of Dance, pursuing her MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research.

photos by Maria Baranova