Marie France Forcier
Marie France Forcier is a Canadian choreographer, performer, writer and pedagogue of contemporary dance forms. She is the director of Forcier Stage Works and the co-director of ReLoCate . Through studio research, public performances, publications and community initiatives, she predominantly engages with the intersection between trauma studies, somatic practices and western contemporary choreography. Over the past 20 years, her body of creative work has been presented on film and on live platforms spanning little-known urban sites to dance-dedicated proscenium spaces across North America, Europe and Asia. In collaborative artistic capacities, she has toured extensively on four continents performing in disciplines ranging from family theatricals to contemporary dance, to performance art to aerial circus. Her writing on various performance-related topics can be found in the Dance Current, and her academic publications, in the journal Dance Chronicles, and the books Literature and Psychology: Writing, Trauma and the Self (2019), Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations (2019) and What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (2019). She is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary and chairs the arts service organisation Dancers Studio West. Forcier splits her time between Toronto, Montréal and Calgary with her two young sons.