Marie-Gabrielle Rotie

Marie Gabrielle is active as an artist, choreographer and movement director across dance, theatre, TV, and film. Over 30 years she has been extensively funded by Arts Council of England and British Council, Trinity Laban, The Place Theatre, The Royal Opera House, and international touring venues. Her research encompasses visual and bodily explorations of landscape, the gothic, mythology, theatre/archaeology and ‘beyond human’. A portfolio of works researching artefacts, archaeology and museums include: Mujokan (2021) commissioned by Kew Gardens, Tollund Man (2012), Artefact 2: Body as Artefact (2013), Artefact 3: The Walls of Palermo (2013) commissioned by Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, and Dance Artefact 4: Tokyo remix November (2021) commissioned by Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

Acclaimed solos researching the ‘mythological feminine’, possession, haunting and the uncanny featuring images of birds, flight, and gravity and exploring feminist questions around spirituality, transcendence, and immanence, include Mythic (2009), Black Mirror (2006) Flying Chair for Da Vinci (2000) Mutability (2003) and Scapula (1999)

She has choreographed pop videos for The Foals (Inhaler) and Crystal Fighters (Follow) and in 2021 featured as soloist/choreographer for Lebanon Hanover music video, ‘Come Kali Come’. She was Choreographer for The Bacchae by Sir Peter Hall, Royal National Theatre. which premiered on Olivier Stage, Royal National Theatre 2002 and movement coach for classical actor Greg Hicks including for Richard lll, (Arcola Theatre, London, 2017). For six years she was costume design consultant and choreographer for London College of Fashion staging productions at Victoria and Albert Museum, Sadler's Wells and The Royal Academy.

In 2020 she was choreographer for The Northman Directed by Robert Eggers. In 2022 she worked as the movement choreographer for Netflix The Witcher series 3. In 2023 she was choreographer for Director Robert Egger’s Nosferatu.