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      <image:caption>Marie France Forcier (she/her) is a Canadian artist. Through her experiential lens as a trained dancer, she researches at the intersection of somatic practice, trauma studies and choreography. Originally from Montreal and maintaining regular collaborative relationships within the Toronto community, Forcier has been Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts since 2015, where she currently acts as the Dance Division’s Performance Lead.    Following the completion of post-secondary degrees in Social Science and Dance in her native Québec, Forcier received conservatory training from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, earned a Masters of Fine Arts in choreography from York University (Toronto), and has been pursuing a PhD in Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University (UK) via the Creative Practice program of the TransArt Institute, for which she is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellow. Under publication, her doctoral work yielded Constructive Expressive Inhabiting, a method rooted in somatic practice to generate creative material from embodied trauma. For over two decades, her body of work has been presented on platforms spanning urban sites to dance-dedicated proscenium theatres to galleries spaces across North America, Europe and Asia. In collaborative capacities, she has performed live and within the digital realm in disciplines ranging from dance theatre to contemporary dance, to performance art to aerial circus, touring extensively around the world. Current ongoing collaborative relationships include work with Anandam DanceTheatre/ Brandy Leary (Canada), W&amp;M Physical Theatre (Canada/Poland), and Heidi Strauss (Canada) and He Jin Jang (South Korea/ Singapore), through the triangular exchange collective InBetween Space Lab.    Her numerous trade articles can be found in The Dance Current, including the widely circulated and ripple-causing piece Code of Silence, a testimonies-substantiated call to action to address abuse in Canadian dance communities. Her academic writing includes chapter contributions to Literature and Psychology: Writing, Trauma and the Self (Ed. Önder Çakirtas, 2019), What Happened, Re-presenting trauma, Uncovering Recoveries Eds. Elspeth McInnes and Danielle Schaub), and Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations (Eds. Danielle Schaub et al.), and journal articles for Taylor and Francis publications Fat Studies and Dance Chronicles. Her research and creative work has been supported over the years by the Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, and Calgary Arts Development. She routinely serves on local, national and international committees and public funding juries, was the Chair of the Dance Service Organization Dancers Studio West (Canada) from 2018-2021, and the co-Artistic director of Toronto’s research hub Hub 14 (2013-15). Forcier lives and raises her children at the meeting point of her French Canadian heritage and the Anglo-dominant culture within which they live on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Molly Johnson and Louis Laberge-Côté in Scars are All the Rage. Image by Craig Chambers.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Molly Johnson in Lab Rats. Image by Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Marie France Forcier.  Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Forcier in Little guidebook for Using your Suffering Wisely. Image: David Hou.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Forcier. Image: Paul Dipp</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Forcier in rehearsal for Lab Rats. Image: James Bunton.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Forcier. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brendan Wyatt, Heather MacPhail, Molly Johnson in Bliss. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Molly Johnson in Bliss. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Heather MacPhail, Erika Howard, Molly Johnson, Brendan Wyatt, Marie France Forcier in Bliss. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Erika Howard, Brendan Wyatt, Heather MacPhail in Gold. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Heather MacPhail, Brendan Wyatt</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nicole Rush, Brendan Wyatt. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nicole Rush, Danielle O'Reilly  in One Too. Image: Walter Lai.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-04-06</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Reclaiming a once identity-marking performance practice interrupted by trauma, childbearing and the pandemic via three distinct works symbolic of my collaborative trajectory:</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Honouring an artistic relationship spanning decades, Verisimilitude (2019) draws on movement and spatial aesthetics from Indian martial arts (kalarippayattu) and acrobatics. In the solo, internationally acclaimed choreographer Brandy Leary (Anandam Dancetheatre) examines my physical structure’s folding and unfolding in a slowly expanding space of light. Working within a circularity that continuously inverts space, the dancing body moves towards the full verticality of standing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through Shadow Sound (2022), my own choreographic offering for the event, I explore the analytical psychology’s concept of Shadow Self. Physicalizing the stretching and distortion of self-perception through shadow images extending from one body to another, I perform this piece with emerging artist/ former student Cindy Ansah, as a mean of simultaneously investigating physical transference and shadowing through time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kimberley Cooper (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, DJD), Calgary’s most celebrated dance company’s artistic director, developed a work within my present physical context. Shift Shaper (2022), indeed challenges my foundational European-descent contemporary practice by closely interweaving movement and musical intricacies in manners closer to Jazz choreography. With this exceptional creative contribution to the dance scene outside of DJD’s roster, Cooper staged a duet- or quintet- depending on the viewer’s perspective, where I morphed into different characters as I physically interact with live musician Jeremy Gignoux.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Composing with animal training-like imagery, Scars parallels certain realities of abuse while remaining sensitive to psychological trauma’s complexities.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cyclical by nature, abuse regularly results from learned behaviour: a perpetrator was often a victim in the first place.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>While we grow culturally desensitized to violence in two-dimensional media, for real-life victims, unshakable traces linger. Somatic experiences are re-lived uncontrollably, and unwelcome images appear at intervals: graphic, distorted. Nightmare-like.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Choreography: Marie France Forcier/ Composition: James Bunton / Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley / Performers: Justine Comfort,  Molly Johnson, Louis Laberge-Côté / Artistic Advisor: Julia Sasso.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I routinely work with emerging dancers in pedagogical settings, and trauma survivors in academic research ones. Having to foster fertile conditions in both has led me to appreciate over time how just how effectively somatic sourcing acts a great equalizer in the creative process by removing the unsafe hierarchies established by form-dictated ideals.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Not only does deeply sensing a textural image as it travels through the body promote grounding, processing, and flow, but it also removes pressure on the dancer to “do it right”. I’ve found that the subconscious only really comes out to play under such conditions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>So much of what has stuck in the making of this piece emerged from the dancers’ and my free-associating while casually conversing about what their bodies naturally produced from the sensory scores I had offered. Dancers: Élodie Kyra Tan, Emmett Bradshaw, Kai Fitzpatrick, Micaela Janse van Rensburg (missing: Camille Scully)/ Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley/ Costume Design: Valerie Calam</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A pandemic creative process-issued version of The Rite of Spring</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 1913 Paris, going against the aesthetic norms of the time, Vaslav Nijinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps caused a riot among its audience on opening night, making history. Since then, many western choreographers have developed their own versions of the original Sacre’s ritualistic movement to Igor Stavinsky’s now-iconic score. For years, I knew that if and when I tackled Sacre, the pre-established sound’s complexity would act as a limitation; as a movement-maker, I am under most circumstances not one to tie material to music very closely. It is during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic that I chose to do Sacre. 2021 brought limitation after limitation on individual and societal scales globally, and, to me, a mirroring sense of restriction within the scope of a creative process seemed fitting.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The work was performed in full theatrical dressing for pedagogical purposes in March 2021 revisited and further developed in the spring of 2022 for live presentation at the University of Calgary.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rite was commissioned for re-staging by Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and performed by the company along recent grads from UCalgary in January 2023. Dancers: Cindy Ansah, Thys Armstrong, Scott Augustine, Kadin Aumentado, Maryn Bjorndahl, Cassandra Bowerman, Sabrina Comanescu, Emilie Field, Shemar Herbert, Kaja Irwin, Mara Liao Esnard/ Lighting Designer: Steve Isom</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Commissions - unheeded</image:title>
      <image:caption>A short film on objectification theory.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Originally, this work wasn’t intended to take form as a dance film. Rather, I imagined it a series of moving images to be taken in live in an intimate space. This in-person version was never actually finalized, as the pre-Covid plan was to present it for the first time at Calgary’s stop of ReLoCate’s The Experiment #4 series, in April 2020. Earlier that year, for the Mile Zero (Edmonton) and Left of Main (Vancouver) legs of a tri-city exchange, I presented evolving work-in-progress material, predominantly using the platforms to gain insight on viewers’ and my own attitude vis-à-vis the female voice and close-up nudity when juxtaposed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My interest in the matter emerged from encounters with Objectification Theory’s position that girls and women are typically acculturated to internalize an observer's perspective as a primary view of their physical selves.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Now, with film comes depersonalization and an extra degree of removal, and I realize that none of this here operates the same way on the viewer. Yet, ultimately, I am grateful for this shift, mostly because I got to work with Linnea Swan (videography) and James Bunton (sound), whose respective artistry I adore.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A contemplation on first impressions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The process for this work started without particular intellectual pursuit: I forgot my laptop at home on the first day, and without music to work from, I decided to send the dancers to our costume room with the directive to “pair up and dress one-another”. What choreographically emerged from the pieces they collectively pulled out is a play on audience perception, presenting two version of the same material performed consecutively, one with plain monochrome skin-tight clothing overlaid with ambient sound, the other with colourful extravagant pieces on a series of popular fashion-related songs by male signers.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Not everything is as it seems, and not everything that seems is." ~ José Saramago</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Commissions - Invisible Injury</image:title>
      <image:caption>A contemporary musical on childhood trauma</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Criticizing rape culture through distortion and re-imagining of popular childhood rhymes, the work, presented prior to the #metoo movement, was received with unease by some.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A sequel, consistent in genre, to those tales of sexual victimization, violence and vilification that persistently remain at the forefront of our mainstream entertainment.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Commissions - Lab Rats</image:title>
      <image:caption>A site-created work adapted for the theatre</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lab Rats was created in function of the very specific indoor space where it was initially produced in 2013. A red iron cast radiator, two emergency exit doors on one single wall, a patchy wooden floor and large windowsills were few of the many elements of Hub 14 (Toronto) integral to the original full-length piece. Dancer Molly Johnson received a Dora award that year for her exceptional performance in the work.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For Fluid Fest 2016, Lab Rats was performed in a different city as a short adaptation for the theatrical space.</image:caption>
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