Paige Phillips (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural organizer whose work lives at the intersection of performance, visual art, and social inquiry. Her practice explores historical narratives with a critical lens, seeking to complicate dominant stories, blur binaries, and foreground Appalachian voices.

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Paige’s work has been presented across the United States at venues including The Icebox Project Space, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Vox Populi, FringeArts, Urban Arts Space, Velocity Dance Center, and On the Boards. Internationally, she has presented work at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival at the National Museum of Singapore, with support from the U.S. Embassy, as well as at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre and Cho Why Arts Space in Thailand and Park Gallery in Kathmandu, Nepal. She was also invited for a month-long residency at Műhely Alapítvány in Budapest, Hungary, as part of the Bilateral Exchange program.

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As a performer, Paige has contributed to projects spanning experimental dance, devised theater, and immersive installation. She has performed in her own choreographic works as well as in projects by visual artists Yael Bartana, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Josiah McElheny, and choreographers Cyrus Khambatta, Noelle Chun, Coco Loupe, and Kaya David. This performance background deeply informs her choreographic and interdisciplinary practice, grounding it in embodied research and collaborative process.

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As an educator, Paige has taught at institutions including Rowan University, The Ohio State University, and International School Bangkok, supporting the development of emerging artists and critical thinkers. She has also led community-based arts education through programs including VSA Ohio in Columbus, where she integrated dance into classrooms for students with disabilities, and Arts Corps in Seattle, which works to address race and income-based disparities in access to arts education.

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Paige holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University with a specialization in Folklore Studies. She currently works at Creative Philadelphia, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts and Culture, where she manages new public art commissions through the Percent for Art program. Previously, she served as a curator of participatory public art at Mural Arts Philadelphia, leading projects centered on community voices and collective storytelling. She was a longtime member of Mascher Space Cooperative and currently serves on the board of Philadelphia Dance Projects.

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Her most recent project, The Tale of the Slaughtered Hog, is a dance/theater work that interlaces West Virginia history, personal narrative, and political commentary. Presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the work draws on the region’s histories of labor and extraction to examine identity, class and the complexities of Appalachian storytelling.