Marie-Andrée Robitaille is a multidisciplinary artist, pedagogue and researcher. She holds a PhD in fine arts in performative and media-based practices specializing in choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts (2024). Robitaille has extensive experience as a professional artist, project manager, and educator in performing arts and higher education. Prior to her professional career in performing arts, she studied human sciences while training as a dancer at École de Danse de Québec and as a circus artist at the National Circus School in Montréal, Canada. Since 1998, Marie-Andrée has worked as a circus performer, dancer, choreographer, director, teacher, head of studies, talent scout and producer notably with Cirkus Cirkör, Cirque du Soleil and CirkusPerspektiv. From 2009 to 2018, she was an assistant professor of circus, the artistic leader and head of the bachelor’s degree programme in circus at Stockholm University of the Arts. In her doctoral project Circus as Practices of Hope: A Philosophy of Circus, she focused on alternative modes of composition as a method to support the further articulation of a philosophy of circus that highlights circus-specific kinetic, aesthetic, and embodied knowledge, situating circus arts as hopeful practices for the future. Her current research interests encompass choreography, composition, design, performative and kinetic new materialisms, posthuman ethics, embodiment, and transdiciplinarity.