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'''Denise Clarke''' is a Canadian dancer and choreographer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Featured Fellow: Denise Clarke |url=https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/featured-fellow-denise-clarke/ |access-date=October 25, 2023 |website=canadiangeographic.ca |language=en-US}}</ref> Born in Alberta, she became a member of the Order of Canada in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 20, 2023 |title=Denise Clarke |url=https://theshoeproject.online/people/denise-clarke-2 |access-date=November 6, 2023 |website=The Shoe Project |language=en-US}}</ref> She works as an Associate Artist with One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theater.
== Career == Denise Clarke started ballet when she was three years old.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Drag |first=Sandra |date=November 15, 2013 |title=Interview with Denise Clarke |url=https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstream/handle/1828/5030/Denise%20Clarke%20May%202013.pdf?sequence=2 |journal=Canadian Dance History Project at the University of Victoria}}</ref> She worked as a choreographer and dance teacher.<ref name=":0" />
She began working on "Collective Creations" together with One Yellow Rabbit in 1983.
In 1986, Clarke joined the One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Ensemble and developed its "signature physical style".<ref>{{Cite web |title=One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/one-yellow-rabbit-performance-theatre |access-date=October 27, 2023 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref> Clarke was the Director of the One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab Intensive from 1997 to 2019. She collaborated with OYR to create shows including ''Breeder'', ''So Low'', ''Permission'', ''Featherland'', ''Sign Language'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 19, 2001|title=A very corporeal eloquence |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/a-very-corporeal-eloquence/article764418/ |access-date=October 25, 2023}}</ref> ''Heavens to Murgatroid'', ''A Fabulous Disaster'', ''Smash Cut Freeze'', ''Wag'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=EIC |date=October 30, 2014 |title=Denise Clarke presents a new solo show |url=https://the-peak.ca/2014/10/denise-clarke-presents-a-new-solo-show/ |access-date=October 25, 2023|website=The Peak |language=en-CA}}</ref> and ''Room 333''.
In 2014, she performed ''Wag'', her autobiographical dance work at the Magnetic North Theater Festival in Halifax.<ref name=":0" />
In 2018, she published The ''Big Secret Book: An Intense Guide for Creating Performance Theater''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Volmers |first=Eric |date= |title="Theatre rule breaker Denise Clarke offers a guidebook for creating performance theatre" |work=Calgary Herald |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/theatre-rule-breaker-denise-clarke-offers-a-guidebook-for-creating-performance-theatre}}</ref>
== Achievements == Denise holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia - Clarke, Denise |url=https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Clarke,%20Denise |access-date=October 25, 2023 |website=www.canadiantheatre.com}}</ref> and was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mlle. Denise Clarke |url=https://www.gg.ca/fr/distinctions/recipiendaires/146-10809 |access-date=October 25, 2023 |website=La gouverneure générale du Canada |language=en}}</ref>
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