Margaux Labossière is a Franco-Manitoban dance artist whose Prairie roots deeply inform her artistic voice. As a performer, choreographer, and educator, she approaches movement as a powerful medium for connection, exploring storytelling, embodiment, nature, and social engagement. Her work investigates the body's expressive possibilities, challenging physical limitations while cultivating technical freedom through embodied understanding.

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Her movement practice draws from a diverse range of influences, including Rudolf Laban’s choreological principles, contemporary floorwork techniques, and improvisation as a central tool for creation and expression. This interdisciplinary foundation supports her ongoing exploration of movement as both an artistic and human experience. She has trained extensively in ballet, pointe, lyrical, contemporary, jazz, hip hop, tap, composition, and improvisation. Contemporary dance remains the core of her performance career and informs both her choreographic and teaching practice.

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Margaux graduated with distinction from Toronto Metropolitan University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Dance. She is the recipient of both the Pamela Hackett Excellence in Dance Award and the Orly Watkin Dance Award. She has performed works by acclaimed choreographers including Peggy Baker, Anne Plamondon, Vicki St-Denys, Apolonia Velasquez, Alysa Pires, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Olivan, Charles Moulton, and Merce Cunningham, whose work she performed under the direction of Dylan Crossman.

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A dedicated lifelong learner, Margaux has pursued advanced training through numerous international residencies and professional programs, including those with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Israel), Metamorphosis Dance Company (Spain), Alias Dance Project (Toronto), Kenny Pearl’s Evolving Arts Initiative (Toronto), Transformation Danse (Montréal), Ground Grooves (Los Angeles), and Deltebre Dansa (Spain). These experiences have allowed her to work alongside internationally recognized artists and companies such as Alleyne Dance, Peter Jasko, Rakesh Sukesh, and Sita Ostheimer.

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For four years, Margaux served as Assistant Director and company dancer with SQx Dance Company, a British Columbia–based contemporary dance company and non-profit organization. During her tenure, she toured extensively throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe while contributing to a range of artistic, educational, and community-engaged initiatives. Among her most significant contributions was helping develop, deliver, and evaluate a three-year Canadian Heritage-funded dance education program that reached more than 30,000 students nationwide. She is particularly proud of leading programming in remote and rural communities, expanding access to dance education for youth who might not otherwise have had the opportunity. Margaux also contributed to the creation and touring of Footprints, a multi-island performance and dance education project across the Azores, and participated in the ABMP Erasmus+ Project, collaborating with six European arts organizations while performing internationally and facilitating professional development training for educators in the Azores.

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Additional career highlights include collaborating with CIRCE – Experimental Platform for Dance and Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia; developing new work at the Skriðuklaustur Residency in Iceland, exploring the intersections of climate change and social inclusion; and premiering Tidal Wave by Carmen Moreira in Santa Maria, Portugal, followed by a national Canadian tour.

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Since returning her artistic focus to Winnipeg in 2025, Margaux has continued to deepen her engagement with Manitoba’s dance community. She performed an excerpt of Signals to Siege, choreographed by Jolene Bailie, at NAFRO’s International Dance Festival and appeared in Bailie’s Accumulation as part of the 61st season of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers in April 2026. She is currently collaborating with acclaimed Canadian artist Margie Gillis on The Whole Blooming Thing, to be presented in Winnipeg in November 2026.

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Today, a lot of Margaux’s work is centered on choreography and dance education. Her choreographic practice has received both regional and national recognition, reflecting a commitment to nuanced physical expression and meaningful artistic inquiry. As an educator, she teaches contemporary dance, lyrical, jazz, ballet, improvisation, and floorwork, fostering both technical excellence and creative agency in her students.

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A certified Yoga RYT instructor with intensive training in Ashtanga Yoga, Margaux integrates principles of conditioning, embodied awareness, and sustainable movement practices into her teaching. She is also certified through Acrobatic Arts and Artistic Dance Educators (ADE).

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Passionate about nurturing the next generation of artists, Margaux combines quality technical training with a supportive and holistic pedagogical approach. She is committed to cultivating confident, adaptable, and thoughtful dancers whose artistic growth is grounded in personal development, community engagement, and a strong sense of social responsibility—both inside and beyond the studio.