
Dr Marie-Louise Crawley is a choreographer, artist researcher, and Assistant Professor in Dance and Cultural Engagement at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University (UK). 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., M.St.) and then vocationally trained at the Ecole Marceau in Paris, Marie-Louise began her professional performance career with Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil (2003-2009) in France then working in the UK as an independent choreographer and dance artist (2009-2015), before returning to academia to undertake her PhD at C-DaRE. Marie-Louise has worked on several large-scale European-funded research projects investigating dance and the heritage sector.
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 is currently working on a new book for Routledge. Marie-Louise is a co-editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and a Series Editor for Bloomsbury’s Dance in Dialogue book series.