Marion Sage is a choreographer, dance researcher, and performer based in Brussels. After training in contemporary dance at the National Conservatory of Caen, she studied movement analysis and the history of performing arts, earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Dance Studies at Paris 8 University. Her career as a dancer and performer continued in Berlin, where she also began a PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2010, she continued her PhD on “left-wing” dancers exiled from Nazi Germany at the University of Lille (title: Modern dances from Germany in Paris: dance criticism and critical dances in France in the 1930s), where she taught for ten years in the Dance Studies department. The seminar space allowed her to set up programs combining physical experimentation, contemporary sociopolitical reflection, and critical analysis.
Alongside her academic research, Marion Sage trained in choreography at the Abbaye de Royaumont on the theme of quotation in dance. Following this training, the Vivat d’Armentières welcomed her for a year to conduct research on the gesture of the voice (as part of the “Pas-à-pas” program of the Drac Hauts de France). It was within the framework of Happynest, a platform supporting emerging artists in the field of performance, under the direction of the Superamas collective, that she began her first choreographic solo, Grand tétras, based on the archives of dancer and gardener Jean Weidt (Premiere: Raffinerie, Charleroi danse, May 2021). She is continuing this work on the gestures of the earth through the Baves project, led with Anne Lepère and consisting of workshops given in rural areas and research into sound, choreography, and lighting. Marion Sage is currently working on the solo Jument, based on the archives of modern dancer Julia Marcus.
In parallel with her own research, the artist works with other choreographers as a performer (Pierre-Louis Kerbart, Lara Barsacq, Thibaud Le Maguer, Liaam Iman) or as a project accompanist or outside eye (Compagnie Tumbelweed, Maud Pizon, Danya Hammoud, Marthe Degaille, etc.).