Marianne Marcote is a performance and theatre artist with a practice that expands over 30 years, which has focused on the embodied connection between body-mind-spirit, impulse and action – performance as a vehicle for the exploration and expression of Self. Marianne’s current artistic work is informed by Butoh dance, somatics, and her own practice as transpersonal dramatherapist, through which she explores the role of presence and the impact of internal and external landscapes in the performer and viewer, by responding to impulse and site, moment to moment, in an attempt to search for existential meaning, deeper embodiment of Self and closer connection. She embodies performance as a ritual act of transcendence and transformation, as a vehicle to travel beyond, let go and become.