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. Rooted in dance, installation, and film, her practice explores historical narratives with a critical lens—seeking to complicate dominant stories, blur binaries, and foreground underrepresented voices. 

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Paige holds an MFA in Dance with a specialization in Folklore Studies from The Ohio State University. Her work has been presented across the United States at venues such as 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 been invited to showcase her work at the National Museum of Singapore through the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, with her trip funded by the American Embassy. She has also shown work at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre and Cho Why Arts Space in Thailand. In response to the devastation following the 2015 earthquake, she presented at Park Gallery in Kathmandu, Nepal —an effort to support and engage with the local arts community during a time of recovery. Additionally, she participated in 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’s Adaptation, Integration, and the Arts 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 worked with a range of choreographers and interdisciplinary artists, contributing 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 public programming and cultural policy. 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 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 Appalachian 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.