Marie-Louise Crawley

Marie-Louise is a choreographer and artist-researcher. Her 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 (B.A. Hons, M.St.) and trained at the Ecole Marceau in Paris, Marie-Louise began her professional performance career with Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil (2003-2009). Since 2010, she has been working in the UK as an independent choreographer and dance artist with companies as diverse as Birmingham Opera Company, Marc Brew, Gary Clarke, Ballet Cymru and Rosie Kay Dance Company. Recent new work has included pieces for a Tate / ARTIST ROOMS exhibit at mac Birmingham, as well as for performance ensemble Avid for Ovid at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She was recently Artist-in-Residence at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford (2017). Marie-Louise's PhD project investigates dance in the archaeological museum.