Marielis Garcia
Marielis Garcia, a Harlem based, Dominican American dance artist holds an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice. She has performed and toured with Brian Brooks (NY), Helen Simoneau (Winston-Salem, NC), Peter Kyle Dance (NY), iKapa (Cape Town, SA), and Douglas Dunn and Dancers (NY), among others.
Her work has been presented by Appalachian State University, Salem College, Howard Community College, University of North Carolina Greensboro and Bard College at Simon’s Rock. In 2014, La MaMa theater awarded Marielis with a three-week residency, supporting and presenting a new work in Spoleto, Italy. In 2017, she was a University of North Carolina School of the Arts Choreographic Fellow.
Marielis has been a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant recipient for 3 years. She has presented her work throughout the US and abroad including Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, the Garment Arts Alliance Festival and Aaron Davis Hall, for which she has been awarded a CUNY Dance Initiative award. She has had residencies at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center (Tivoli, NY), Dance Initiative (Carbondale, CO), Chashama (NY), North York Arts Center (Toronto, Canada) and many more.
She and Canadian artist David Norsworthy have been developing and performing a work that is an emergent collaborative creative process entitled Possibilities of Dialogue. Since 2009, Marielis has also been a visiting teaching artist in NYC public schools through The Leadership Program.
Marielis is currently at Artist in Residence at the University of Maryland.