Marie-Louise Flexen

Marie-Louise Flexen

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Marie-Louise Flexen is an experienced professional dance artist and versatile performer. She is also an award-winning choreographer, who has worked with renowned dance makers and theatre directors since graduating from the London School of Contemporary Dance in 1992.

Since 2002 she has produced, created, and directed many Arts Council funded and commissioned performances, which have included large-scale site-specific works, touring dance theatre, dance films, combined arts collaborations, outdoors arts, street theatre, participatory dance and cabaret. She has also created performance for influential cult musicians Sparks and Jarvis Cocker.

Marie-Louise was a core company member of internationally renowned Seven Sisters Group London 1994-2002 in productions performed nationally and internationally at The Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, The National Theatre, St Pancreas Chambers, V&A Museum, Selfridges, The Place Theatre, and train stations across Europe.

Marie-Louise danced for Sole Rebel and Swerve Dance Theatre between 2012 - 2018 as a company dancer.

More recently, in 2021 Marie-Louise received an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant (DYCP) to evolve her practice of dancing with horses. This was also the year in which Marie-Louise joined Mandala Theatre Company, Oxford working alongside Yasmin Sidhwa on movement direction and choreography. Additionally, she has recently resumed collaborative work with The Velcro Collective in Gloucestershire – a relationship that began 15 years ago in its earlier form as Velcro Dance Company.

Marie-Louise won the 2015 Inspiring Leader, Dance UK award. She was a finalist for the choreography award category in The Place Prize 2005 and was nominated for a Total Theatre Award 2007.

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