Marion Storm is a dance artist based in Sete/Montpellier. Her projects have been recently presented at Center for Performance Research (New York), 3 bis f – lieu d’arts contemporains (Aix-en-Provence) and mas nyam nyam (Catalunia) among others.

Storm’s writing has been published by The Operating System, Loam, and About Place Journal. She teaches intergenerational movement/sensing/attention workshops for everybody, and offers dance classes to dancers that mix her particular embodied practices that fortify the links between body and place.

Storm was the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts ‘Emergency Grant’ for her collaboratively built performance and symposium resistance fantasies: strategies for moving toward– and against– in 2019, and was awarded an ‘Artists in the City’ scholarship by Fondation Hermes in 2019-2021 for completion of the Master Exerce (Montpellier) in Choreographic Research & Performance.

Her dance & writing work on and with the planet is grounded in hydropoetics, & the sensuouness of transmission in performance (like–this is what it feels like to…).

Marion Storm began to choreograph and compose dance in 2010 at The New School with the guidance of Neil Greenberg, on Lenapehoking land, in New York City.

Marion Storm participated in various Life Long Burning exchange programmes & contexts since 2020: a residency in Ljubljana hosted by the Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia in September 2020; Tour Through Tanztage hosted by Uferstudios in Berlin in January 2022; and most recently at the Choreographic Convention Bodies in Free Fall in Zagreb co-hosted by Antisezona and Nomad Dance Academy in November 2024.  

Since April 2025, Marion Storm has been bringing together five artists, researchers and cultural workers, who she all met within Life Long Burning, in a working group to explore and develop the possibilities offered by an artist-led network:

How can this network support us? How can we recognise the macro and micro movements that build it? How can we strengthen and amplify it? And above all, how can we encourage solidarity by participating in it? Our experiences, exchanges and formal activities are motivated by the desire to encourage translocal solidarity! The ‘provisional title’ of this practice: Learning (on site). We are Marion Storm, Laura Kirshenbaum, Ana Letunić and Dragana Alfirević. Many thanks to Elvan Tekin for your participation in the working group's first calls during the summer of 2025.

The Open House offers 4 activities over the course of an afternoon:  Open Walk, Open Talk, Open Score, and Open Source.
Registration and more information are here to find.

Tuesday, 2 December 
Studio Yano, open to all upon registration.

Open Walk
This is a group walk. We will leave the space together and take a walk. Counter to the ‘hypermobility' of this collective moment, we will practice slowing things down by activating attention and by generating speculative proposals along the walk.

Open Talk
This is a collective reading/talking/listening experience. Bring whichever text that has helped you endure. A fragment of writing (yours or someone else’s) that accompanied or accompanies you through grief, migration, burnout or joy. And bring a willingness to read, listen or just share your presence. A selection of texts will already be here waiting for you…

Open Score
Open Score invites you to practice joy together ; How to generate and cultivate a joyous sensation within the body and with the others around ? Dance and movement will be portals for this shared experience.

Open Source
A knowledge-sharing session proposed by the four members of this ‘working group’, discussing trans-local solidarity tactics and also putting them into ACTION with a collective dreaming exercise. This final session of the Open House is inspired by actions that were proposed during Lifelong Burning’s 2024 Choregraphic Convention in Zagreb.