Marilyn Green

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Artist Statement: In my work in all disciplines, my goal is to open a gateway to the Divine, taking my own spiritual experience and expanding it so others' connections and vision can combine with it and expand. The act of creating is for me one of the richest ways possible of opening that door.

Bio: Marilyn Green, Co-Director of the Trinity Movement Choir, is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work in visual arts, dance, music, and film animation have earned her extensive recognition, from a Millay Colony Award to a Ford Foundation Fellowship and grants in the arts and humanities for projects in several disciplines. She holds degrees in painting and music, and created installations under a two-year CETA grant at the Arts Consortium in Cincinnati, as well as participating in group and one-man shows as a painter. Her technical work in dance centers on Rudolf Laban, both in terms of movement analysis and his philosophy of creating structured choreography with room for personal expression, and is also drawn from Butoh’s slow, hypnotic movement and goal of transforming the dancer and audience rather than displaying what the human body can do.

In 2010 she founded the Trinity Movement Choir at historic Trinity Church at Wall Street in New York City; the group performs regularly at Trinity and St. Paul’s Chapel, as well as appearing at events including The Parliament of the World’s Religions, Performing the World, the Sheen Center in Manhattan, the Chautauqua Institution and colleges and universities, as well as Sacred Dance Guild festivals.