Marie-Louise is a choreographer and artist-researcher. Her research specialisms include dance and museums, and areas of intersection between Dance Studies and Classics, such as ancient dance and the performance of epic. Informed by a practice research approach, she also has research interests in dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) within Critical Heritage Studies.

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. Choreographic work has included pieces for a Tate / ARTIST ROOMS exhibit at mac Birmingham, and for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 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 and Artist Associate. Marie-Louise's PhD (2018), undertaken at C-DaRE (the Centre for Dance Research), Coventry University, investigated dance in the archaeological museum. Marie-Louise has previously worked on EU-funded research projects, CultureMoves (2018-2020), REACH (2017-2020) and WEAVE (2021-2022), all focussed on participatory approaches to heritage, and is currently Project Lead on the British Council-funded project, 'Kinaesthetic Heritage: bodies, memories and contested histories', in partnership with Université Grenoble Alpes (France).

Marie-Louise 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 her monograph Radical Archaeology: Dancing in the Museum is forthcoming with Routledge. Marie-Louise is a Co-Editor for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and a Series Editor for Bloomsbury's Dance in Dialogue book series. She is an Associate Fellow of the HEA.