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Marie France Forcier, MFA,  is a choreographer, performer, writer, and pedagogue of European-descent contemporary dance forms. Through studio work, public performance and community initiative, she researches at the intersection of somatic practices, trauma studies and choreography. An Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts, she is also a PhD candidate in Creative Practice at Liverpool John Moores University through the Transart Institute.
 

Her body of creative work has been presented on platforms spanning little-known urban sites to dance-dedicated proscenium spaces across North America, Europe and Asia. In collaborative artistic capacities, she has performed live and on film in disciplines ranging from family theatricals to contemporary dance, to performance art to aerial circus, touring extensively on four continents.
 

Active in her practice and research communities, she was recently Board Director at Dancers Studio West, and continues to serve on several local, national, and international juries and committees. She raises her children and works within the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7.