American Dance Festival is pleased to invite you to an open showing.

The showing will be at 5pm on Sunday, June 8th.

We hope you will join us for this special event!  This is a FREE event, but we do ask that you make a reservation in advance. With thanks for your interest and support.

New York City-based choreographer and interdisciplinary dance artist marion spencer will share brand new solo material emerging as part of a series of solo works excavating lineage, memory, archive and dreams amidst onrushing climate catastrophe. This new research is feminine, feminist, interdisciplinary and inspired by the act and process of shedding – internal, external, embodied and archival. Part shrine to and in question of what we hold onto and why, this project asks – ‘how do we archive’, ‘where do we put our things’, ‘what must we let go of’ and ‘what can we still dream for’ in a world of monstrous climate catastrophe? Made and performed by marion spencer, this informal showing marks the culmination of marion’s creative residency at ADF, with gratitude to ADF for supporting the very beginning stages of this new solo project.

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marion spencer is a Bessie Award-nominated interdisciplinary dance artist based in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. Through a weaving of artistic mediums including movement, sound and installation, marion creates poetic ecosystems within which to wonder, feel & dream, excavating the personal, the systemic, the unknown, the radical, the cellular and the beautiful. Her work has been presented in NYC by La Mama Experimental Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Field Center, Gibney, Amherst College, Mana Contemporary and New Dance Alliance, among others. marion has danced for Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, Kendra 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, Dancewave, Greenwich Country Day High School, MOtiVe Brooklyn and Freeskewl. She has been a guest teaching artist at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of Maryland, Amherst College, University of Washington, Velocity Dance Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham Rep, Louisiana State University, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Lusher Charter High School and Dancing Grounds. marion also teaches Pilates and is a Craniosacral Therapist. She holds a BA from Vassar College in Geography-Anthropology (2009), and an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research (2025).

Photo by Steven Pisano

The ADF studio subsidy program is funded by the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.