Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Choreographer
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie is a UK based artist working across the mediums of choreography, live performance, film, photography and installation, her work willfully slipping between categories, and staged in diverse locations including theatres, galleries and site-specific locations. Rotie trained as a Fine Artist (Wimbledon School of Art, BA Hons First Class. ) receiving a solid technical and conceptual framework from which to approach the experimental. She then trained extensively in Europe and Japan in a range of experimental movement and voice techniques.
She has collaborated with Prize winning composer Nick Parkin on all productions since 1994 and sound, together with sculptural lighting design and the skillful deployment of costume design, is central to carving out the distinguishing aesthetic of her solo and group works.
Her own company productions totally over 35 works, have been extensively supported and funded by Arts Council of England, British Council, The Place Theatre and Trinity Laban amongst many others. Since 2005 she has created seven commissioned works with Trinity Laban, and since 2001 she has staged nine productions at The Place Theatre including for The Place Prize. Other UK venues that have supported her work include The Royal Opera House, Exeter Phoenix and Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster. International touring includes to festivals in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Japan and many other countries. recent international choreography includes for Esplanade Theatre in Singapore and a work based on 'The Tollund Man' created for young dancers in Denmark. Marie-Gabrielle Rotie is an internationally recognized Butoh exponent, and has collaborated extensively with Ko Murobushi and Atsushi Takenouchi. She is featured in Sondra Fraleigh's book, 'Butoh: metaphoric dance and global alchemy.'
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie has worked as a choreographer for The Royal National Theatre on The Bacchae, for Sir Peter Hall, and has worked closely as movement trainer and consultant for the classical actor Greg Hicks on his roles in various productions including for the Royal Shakespeare Company and more recently for Richard II for the Arcola Theatre in London. Rotie has also worked extensively as a choreographer and costume design consultant with the London College of Fashion and has staged five productions at venues including The Raphael Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sadler's Wells and The Royal Academy in London.
Rotie is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and has been a regular visiting tutor to Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Laban and numerous other UK universities, teaching Actors, Dancers, Directors, Visual Artists and Costume Designers.
She worked as an actress, dancer and choreographer in the early award winning experimental films of Ian Pons Jewell including 'Dreamt in Flesh' and '¼ inch' as well as fronting the pop video for Crysal Fighters (Follow) and has choreographed for The Foals (Inhaler).
She has collaborated with Prize winning composer Nick Parkin on all productions since 1994 and sound, together with sculptural lighting design and the skillful deployment of costume design, is central to carving out the distinguishing aesthetic of her solo and group works.
Her own company productions totally over 35 works, have been extensively supported and funded by Arts Council of England, British Council, The Place Theatre and Trinity Laban amongst many others. Since 2005 she has created seven commissioned works with Trinity Laban, and since 2001 she has staged nine productions at The Place Theatre including for The Place Prize. Other UK venues that have supported her work include The Royal Opera House, Exeter Phoenix and Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster. International touring includes to festivals in Romania, Switzerland, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Japan and many other countries. recent international choreography includes for Esplanade Theatre in Singapore and a work based on 'The Tollund Man' created for young dancers in Denmark. Marie-Gabrielle Rotie is an internationally recognized Butoh exponent, and has collaborated extensively with Ko Murobushi and Atsushi Takenouchi. She is featured in Sondra Fraleigh's book, 'Butoh: metaphoric dance and global alchemy.'
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie has worked as a choreographer for The Royal National Theatre on The Bacchae, for Sir Peter Hall, and has worked closely as movement trainer and consultant for the classical actor Greg Hicks on his roles in various productions including for the Royal Shakespeare Company and more recently for Richard II for the Arcola Theatre in London. Rotie has also worked extensively as a choreographer and costume design consultant with the London College of Fashion and has staged five productions at venues including The Raphael Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sadler's Wells and The Royal Academy in London.
Rotie is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and has been a regular visiting tutor to Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Laban and numerous other UK universities, teaching Actors, Dancers, Directors, Visual Artists and Costume Designers.
She worked as an actress, dancer and choreographer in the early award winning experimental films of Ian Pons Jewell including 'Dreamt in Flesh' and '¼ inch' as well as fronting the pop video for Crysal Fighters (Follow) and has choreographed for The Foals (Inhaler).
