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Marie Proffit – Development Co-ordinator

Marie works with body>data>space as development co-ordinator and on RACIF as the Integrated Events co-ordinator. She’s also providing translation support for the European artistic mobility MADE project.

Experienced in the fields of arts and culture for 6 years, in France, Italy and in the UK, Marie has a strong interest and a solid experience, both professional and academic, in innovative arts initiatives that develop creative relationships between top level contemporary creation, artists and audiences. At a European level, she has been focused on projects encouraging the collaboration between contemporary artistic disciplines (performing arts, visual arts, music…) as well as building a bridge between creativity, society and education. She settled in the UK in September 2010.

She coordinates EUNIC London (National Cultural Institute’ European network) cluster since January 2011, providing administrative support, marketing and developing collaborative cultural projects, in close collaboration with European Commission Representation in London.

From 2007 to 2008 she was a communication coordinator for ARTfactories/Autre(s)pARTs, in Mains d’Oeuvres, is a common platform for reflection, research and action, transmission and solidarity for the development of art centres that organize their practices and experiments around the relationship between arts, territories and populations.

From 2008 to 2010, Marie has been a development manager for Theatre du Bout du Monde, a French performing arts company that runs an artistic cross disciplinary project in a Parisian suburb urban renovation area with underprivileged and disabled people. She has been implementing innovative strategies in term of fundraising and education projects, assisting artists in workshops, developing the visibility and the impact of the overall project.

She has additional experience in contemporary dance company administration and music festival marketing.