My workshops encourage the PRESENCE of bodies in motion.
I use ART as a resource to stimulate CONNECTION with oneself, with others, and with nature.
I support AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION through body awareness.
The tools stimulate CREATIVITY. This invites greater FREEDOM of movement!
Our bodies contain all of our life experiences. When we move, we open up the possibility of diving into this personal and collective library. Through dance, drawing, creative writing, and voice, we explore and express our discoveries.
Multidisciplinarity gives strength and depth to dance. Art brings the materials of life into play, we reveal ourselves.
The links that are forged between our art and our lives, and the meaning we can give them, then form the basis for personal and artistic reflection. It is our life experiences that inspire our art, which in turn informs us about who we are.
This is what we call the Life Art Process®.
I also draw on my knowledge of Master Mantak Chia®'s Tao of Healing, as well as improvisational dance, instant composition, and my Art-Ritual tools.
I accompany you in crossing limiting boundaries and tapping into your expressive power! I invite you to create solo, in pairs, or in groups to transform your perspective.
ART transforms.
ART heals.
ART unites.
I am particularly interested in the creation of PERFORMANCE linked to RITUAL.
The dancers who participate in my workshops connect with their creative power. By rediscovering their resources in this way, dancers gain confidence and boldness. I am moved to see how artistic practices transform the way we are and how we see the world!
NATURE is my favorite dance studio, and I love to take you there to dance, breathe, listen, and create.
It inspires me every day and in my artistic work.
I firmly believe that today it is necessary to connect with our creative sensibility. It provides intuitive answers to everyday challenges while connecting us to our strengths and vulnerabilities as human beings. Reclaiming our inner voice and “tuning in” to our sensibility brings greater freedom to every moment. In these turbulent times, I believe it is essential to return to our physical structure to strengthen our foundation and dare to express our intuition and instincts.
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I studied with Anna HALPRIN for a year in California. My life was transformed.
Anna, creator of the Life/Art Process® and Californian pioneer of post-modern dance, supports invention in art and everyday life as a way to energize creativity. Developed by exceptional figures in the art world, this international contemporary dance practice has over 50 years of expertise in somatic study. Anna Halprin drew inspiration from research conducted with Simone Forti, Martha Graham, Fritz Perls, and the work of Feldenkrais and Alexander, revolutionary masters of the moving body. Anna brought a social and political dimension to the art of dance to heal individual and collective conflicts. Her commitment to art is spiritual and ecological. The Life/Art Process® connects humans to one another.
I study with Master Mantak Chia in Thailand and am certified as an Associate Instructor of Aisha Sieburth's Tao of Vitality® School. Today, I integrate the fundamental principles of Taoist practices into my artistic and educational explorations.
What is the Tao of Healing®?
It is a physical practice for finding balance and feeling vibrant and creative. This approach focuses on stimulating vital energy to nourish the organs and bones, drain the lymph, and return to one's center. The Tao of Healing® offers alchemy, the transformation of lead into gold. My approach aims to embody Qi to stimulate creativity and artistic sensitivity.
My teaching will help you to:
Amplify your artistic and human potential
Develop creativity
Experience empathy and compassionate communication
Accept all parts of yourself and draw inspiration from them to create artistic forms
Experiment with collective creation using art and ritual as resources
Engage in pro-ecology
Designed for anyone who wants to explore the body in motion and develop their intuition and creativity, with or without prior dance experience.
For dance professionals and amateurs, therapists, and those who love art and nature, research, and the fun of a group experience.
You can find the dates for the WORKSHOPS in the AGENDA link!
"When enough people dance together to the same rhythm with the same intention, a new force takes over! »
Anna Halprin
It's a circular dance to live a collective experience with the intention of being together and celebrate life.
This ritual brings people together and connects them to each other. It gives confidence in the power of acting together!
It is also called the DANCE FOR PEACE!
The Planetary Dance takes the form of a Mandala to invite a sense of community.
This practice, created by Anna and Lawrence Halprin in 1978, was a tool to restore peace in a context of violence.
This powerful ritual brings together a large number of people dancing to the percussive music played by musicians at the centre of the circles.
There is no age limit.
Every year the Planetary Dance takes place around the world in June.
It is a real balm to the heart!
Following the attacks in Brussels in March 2016, I proposed the Planetary Dance during the following months. Since then, I offer Planetary Dance in the cities I travel to: Brussels, Spain, Ibiza, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia (Brazil).
Marie uses the tools of the Life / Art Process® in a sensitive way. I construct links that make sense in my life and my art. It's a good mix of lightness and seriousness, a perfect environment to explore with confidence and creativity.
“The work with Marie during the artistic residency woke me up! I could feel my strengths and my vulnerabilities, feel capable, alive and connect with concrete and powerful artistic tools!
“I received Marie's propositions during a workshop as an invitation to return in my child's swing. It made me want to play, to laugh, to follow my desires without judging me, to go out in the street and continue to dance!
“The workshop with Marie gave me a key to my own creativity and what I have to offer. My love for dance and movement have been allowed to greatly blossom!
“I lived the Life / Art Process® with Marie in an artistic, therapeutic and relational way. It was also an integration of my knowledge about the art of the stage. I thought: Finally I'm dancing for real! I had a very stimulating and powerful process.
“The Planetray Dance gave me joy. I observe that I use to laugh a lot during the ritual! It gives me the feeling of working in a team, of dancing in family with people I do not know.
“Planatary Dance is a space-time that I offered myself several times to connect with friends and strangers, gathered around a common desire to mobilize for peace. The opportunity to gather around commitments, shared values, I also see this ritual dance as a catalyst of consciousness and energy. Despite the tragic events that motivated Marie to organize it at the beginning, this experience was every time an opportunity to share enthusiasm together with adults and children.
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