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 holds an MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University with a specialization in Folklore Studies. Her 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 presented her work at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival at the National Museum of Singapore (supported by the U.S. Embassy), and in Thailand at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre and Cho Why Arts Space. In response to the devastation following the 2015 earthquake, she also showed work at Park Gallery in Kathmandu, Nepal - an engagement with the local arts community during a time of recovery. Additionally, she was invited for a month‑long residency at Műhely Alapítvány in Budapest, Hungary, as part of the Bilateral Exchange program.

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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 such as VSA Ohio in Columbus, where she integrated dance into classrooms for students with disAbilities, and Arts Corps in Seattle, which addresses the race and income-based opportunity gap in access to arts education. 

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As a performer, Paige has contributed to projects that span experimental dance, devised theater, and immersive installation. She has performed in her own choreographic works as well as in pieces 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 curatorial practice, grounding it in embodied research and collaborative process. 

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She currently works at Creative Philadelphia, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts and Culture, where she contributes to new public art commissions through the Percent for Art program. Previously, she served as a curator of participatory public art at Mural Arts, where she led projects that centered community voices and collective storytelling. She also serves on the board of Philadelphia Dance Projects, an organization dedicated to supporting contemporary dance and performance. Paige is also a long-time member of Mascher Space Cooperative, a grassroots organization supporting dancers in Philadelphia. 

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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 piece has been noted for its bold engagement with labor, identity, and regional storytelling.