Judith Marcuse

Judith Rose Marcuse (born 1947)

Dancer Judith Marcuse began her dance training in Montreal and at 15 she moved to London to study at the Royal Ballet School where her training combined modern dance influences with a traditional classical ballet education. During her early career, Marcuse performed with various companies including Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Bat-Dor Dance Company in Israel, Ballets de Genève in Switzerland and Oakland Ballet in the United States, and finally London's Ballet Rambert where Marcuse began to choreograph dances herself. Marcuse created Seascapes (1984), Madrugada (1990), Time Out (1986), The Waltz (1981), Traces (1985), Moving Past Neutral (1988) and others. Marcuse created experimental interdisciplinary performances that combined art with social issues beginning with The Kiss Project (1995-2000) that became an annual festival 1995-2000. The study resulted in establishment of a two-year graduate program in ASC for the Faculty of Education at the SFU. the dance-only performing arts prize of the Canada Council for the Arts