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Marie-Louise Crawley
Marie-Louise Crawley is a choreographer, artist-researcher and an assistant professor at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University. Her current research interests include dance and museums, and areas of intersection between classics and dance studies such as ancient dance and the performance of epic. Educated at the University of Oxford (BA, M.St.) and then vocationally trained at the Ecole Marceau in Paris, she began her professional performance career with Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil (2003–09) in France, then working in the United Kingdom as an independent choreographer and dance artist (2009–15), before returning to academia to undertake her Ph.D. at C-DaRE (2015–18). She was formerly an artist-in-residence at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford (2017) and is now an APGRD research associate. She has worked on several large-scale European-funded research projects investigating dance and the heritage sector and has published widely in Dance Research Journal, Performance Research Journal and International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, among others. She co-edited Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body Space Object (Palgrave, 2020) and is also a series editor for Bloomsbury’s Dance in Dialogue book series.
Contact: Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK.
