Movement Matters: Maree Remalia

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

This movement class welcomes folks from across disciplines, identities, and experiences to move in ways that feel good to their bodies. Participants are guided through explorations that invite self-awareness and connection with fellow movers. We move all together and in small groups in ways that range from slow, nuanced gestures akin to moving meditations to faster paced more full-bodied expressions traveling through space; we respond to game-like structures, activate the voice, stretch, and ground through breathing and imagery. Flowing through this range of experiences, we can be joyful and grieving, awkward and confident, silly and intentional; we can sink into the weight of our flesh, while accessing lightness in our bones and attend to our internal impulses as we sense the horizon beyond the room. These practices aim to offer opportunities to open to new possibilities and cultivate care in understanding ourselves, each other, and the world of which we are part. Ages 16+, no previous experience necessary. Bring a journal and water bottle and wear clothing comfortable for moving. In her facilitation, ReMalia draws on improvisational methods based in dance and theater, somatic practices, compositional structures, and her work as a certified instructor of the Gaga movement language. To read more about acknowledgements and influences visit www.mareeremalia.com.

Maree ReMalia is a choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and certified Gaga instructor. An adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Ohio, movement has supported her in an ongoing process of self-discovery, liberation, and expression. In her work as a dance artist, she invites others into these unfolding processes with a focus on care and connection. Her collaborative performance projects have been presented at venues such as BAAD! Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Cleveland Public Theatre, Dance Place, Gibney DoublePlus Festival, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, New Hazlett Theater, and Daegu International Dance Festival. She has been a performer in the work of Gabriel Forestieri, Bebe Miller, Michael J. Morris, Blaine Siegel and Jil Stifel, Christopher Williams, and Lida Winfield Maree was previously a member of MegLouise Dance, MorrisonDance, and STAYCEE PEARL dance project. Since earning her MFA at The Ohio State University, she was selected as the Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer for Middlebury College Movement Matters Residency and has been faculty at Colorado Conservatory of Dance, Lion’s Jaw Performance + Dance Festival, Point Park University, University of Florida, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. www.mareeremalia.com