Maria Rose Fleischman is a filmmaker and dance artist based in New York City. Her experimental, movement-based films confine the ethereal and grotesque in intimate spaces and explore a nuanced relationship to queerness. Maria has had the pleasure of performing dance works by John Jasperse, Allysen Hooks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mina Nishimura, Helen Simoneau, Ming-Lung Yang, and others. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a diploma in contemporary dance and holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College with concentrations in filmmaking, dance, and philosophy.