MJ Thompson is a writer and teacher working on dance, performance, and visual art. A fan of dance in all its forms, she has been watching and writing about movement and performance for over twenty years. Committed to popular culture and everyday aesthetics, she has written for a wide variety of publications, includ ing Ballettanz, Border Crossings, Brooklyn Rail, Canadian Art, Dance Current, Dance Ink, Dance Magazine, Drama Review, Globe and Mail, Women and Performance, Theatre Journal, and other publications. Her academic work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada, and her essays have appeared in several anthologies, including Performance Studies Canada (McGill-Queen’s Press, 2017). Recently, she received the National Park Service Arts and Sciences Residency, Cape Cod National Seashore, August 2019, where she worked on a long-form essay about the embodied view (Departures, 2020). Her book about Québec dancer Louise Lecavalier is forthcoming (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is currently Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
