bio

Maree ReMalia is a choreographer, performer and teacher who holds an MFA from The Ohio State University. She earned a BA in Education for Social Change and Cultural Studies through Prescott College and subsequently taught with the Teach for America program. Her creative research has been funded by the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship, the Chair’s Discretionary Fund through OSU’s Department of Dance and the Kathryn Karipides Scholarship.

In her creative process, she draws inspiration from investigations in Ohad Naharin’s Gaga movement language and studies at Moving on Center School for Participatory Arts; she has also been deeply impacted by Bebe Miller’s emergent style of creative process and John Giffin’s approach to Dance Theater.  ReMalia is interested in the significance of utilizing improvisational, sensory-based methodologies as a means of cultivating self-awareness, building community and making new discoveries through movement.  It is her intent to create performance work that is reflective of a heterogeneous group of individuals and their collaborative process.  Her original choreography has been presented in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Big Box and Dance Works series, MegLouise Dance Sneak Reviews, Movement Research at the Judson Church, 60×60 and the Williamsburg Free Fest.

Maree has had the pleasure of dancing with Cleveland-based companies MorrisonDance and MegLouise Dance and previously with Southern Ballet Theatre and the Richmond Ballet.  Recently she has performed in the work of John Giffin, Bebe Miller, Ohad Naharin, Ming Shen Gu and Noa Zuk. Rich collaborations have been enjoyed with Heather Baur, Kalindi Stockton and OSU Dance colleagues. Through these associations, she has performed in venues such as the CinciFringe Fest, Cleveland Public Theatre’s Dance Works series, DUMBO Dance Festival, Ingenuity Festival, New England Dance Project showcase, Ten Tiny Dances and the Yitzhak International Arts Gathering in Acco, Israel.