Marlee has been dancing for the past two decades. Her relationship to the form manifests in many ways – education, performance, choreography, research, and administration. Marlee is curious about creating authentic, vulnerable, bold movement to explore the ways the body processes life’s bigger qualms and subtle joys through theatricality and virtuosity. Her work explores topics such as grief, identity, and purpose through the lens of humor and the bizarre. Marlee recently premiered her first evening length work “say la V” which was the product of her month long collaborative residency chew & spit. She has had the pleasure of performing in works by Jennifer Monson, Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez, Jacob Henns, Josiah Gundersen, and more. Marlee is a passionate educator who hopes to ignite creativity and aid in students’ discovery of their artistic voice. She spends her summers in Durham, NC where she works as the Company Manager for the American Dance Festival. Through this and their other administrative work, they are honored to elevate dance at all stages in the process. Marlee holds a BA in Dance from Webster University where her senior capstone, “That’s so Gay… Gender and Sexuality Representation in Concert Dance and Why it Matters,” was chosen for presentation at multiple conferences. Marlee is currently a MFA candidate at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she also holds a teaching fellowship. You can view her full CV here.