Cody Cook-Parrott (formerly M@rlee Gr@ce) is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art making. Their practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists. Grace’s Instagram dance project Personal Practice has been featured in the New York Times, Dance Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and more.
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Cody’s most recent book is Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown. You can buy it here. They also wrote the book How to Not Always Be Working.
Cody received a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and is currently getting their MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with concentrations in Performance and Decolonial Arts Praxis