Marie’s current research focuses on the use of speech in contemporary dance and the performance of being. Taking a practice research approach, she has developed an improvised ‘speakingdance’ practice in which the dancer attunes to their sense of themselves to disclose their being through the rhythm of speech and dance. The practice has been performed and taught internationally.

Marie lectures in dance practices, feminism and practice research across the undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in dance. The book she is co-editing with Martin Leach as part of the Performance Philosophy series, From Heidegger to Performance, is due for publication with Rowan and Littlefield in 2024. Marie’s collaborative work with international artists and philosophers exploring with, through and against Martin Heidegger’s thinking, will be exhibited at the Flat Time House Gallery in London, September 2023.