marion spencer is an interdisciplinary dance artist living in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn.​ Through a weaving of dance, sound and installation practices, Spencer’s work creates poetic ecosystems within which to wonder, feel & dream. She creates both solo and ensemble performances that excavate the personal, the systemic, the unknown, the wild, the cellular and the beautiful.

Spencer is a 2023 New York Dance & Performance (‘Bessie’) Awards Nominee for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer. Her work has been presented in New York by La MaMa Experimental Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, NYU Tisch Dance, and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at Macdowell, The American Dance Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Gibney, The Field Center, Amherst College, Mana Contemporary and New Dance Alliance, among others.

​As a performer, Spencer has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|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. As a teacher, Spencer has been on faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney, Peridance, Greenwich Country Day High School, MOtiVe Brooklyn, Freeskewl and hosted her own class outdoors in Prospect Park from 2020-21. She has been a guest teaching artist at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of Maryland-College Park, Amherst College, University of Washington, Velocity, Western Washington University, Bellingham Rep, Louisiana State University and Dancing Grounds.

In addition to choreographing, performing and teaching dance, Spencer teaches Pilates and is a Craniosacral Therapist. She holds an MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2025), and a BA with Honors in Geography from Vassar College (2009).