Margaret Paek

Margaret Paek is a collaborative performing and teaching dance artist. Since
1997, she has been dedicated to furthering the individual artist within a
shared creative process. To that end, she has created with the collectives
Lower Left, GROUP, UpSideDown, Team Djordjevich, the Stochastic Ensemble,
and Project LIMB. Her cooperative and individual work has been presented at
venues including Sushi Performance & Visual Art in San Diego, ODC in San
Francisco, Dixon Place, Starr Street Productions, and Danspace at St. Mark’s
Church in New York. As a teacher, Ms. Paek has been adjunct faculty at
California State University at San Marcos, and recently worked abroad for
the Swedish Dance Alliance and the International Contact Festival in
Freiburg, Germany. Though she began her training as a young gymnast, she
has since been influenced by her studies of dance, improvisation,
performance art, and Alexander technique. Nina Martin’s Rewire States and
Lower Left’s Ensemble Thinking and Creative Research techniques have been
integral to her artistic development. In New York, she currently teaches for
Manhattanville College and Movement Research, coaches gymnastics, and
creates a home in the lovely community of Woodside. www.lowerleft.org