Denise Clarke

Choreographer

Denise Clarke began working with One Yellow Rabbit (OYR) in 1983 and became Associate Artist and a permanent member of the Ensemble in 1986. She has created or co-created several shows with the company including The Erotic Irony of Old Glory, Touch, CD Dance, Breeder, So Low, Permission, Featherland, Sign Language and Heavens to Murgatroid. Denise created and became director of the OYR Summer Lab Intensive School in 1997. She continues to teach, give master classes, and lecture, most recently at the University of Regina, Queens University, UC-Drama at the University of Toronto and the Quebec Drama Federation.

Other work includes choreography for Theatre Calgary and Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary, Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, Crows Theatre and the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto. She has toured extensively in OYR shows including Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp, Mata Hari: Tigress at the City Gates, Doing Leonard Cohen, Thunderstruck, Sign Language and Dream Machine.

Denise Clarke was commissioned by Peggy Baker to create a new work for the 2007/08 season, featuring duet partner, Larry Hahn.