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 recently performed in works by Juli Brandano, Nik Owens, 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 has spent the last three summers in Durham, NC working as the Company Manager for the American Dance Festival. She will return this summer as the US Representative for their International Choreographers in Residence program 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.