Marie Casimir is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist, producer, curator, and educator. Her work blends improvisational movement, choreography and performative text to explore cultural memory and Black diasporic identity. Featured at venues like Oklahoma Contemporary, Links Hall, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, and the Austin Dance Festival, Casimir has earned honors including a Ragdale Artist Fellowship and a Regional Emmy nomination.

As the founder of Djaspora Productions, Casimir fosters global artistic exchanges for artists of color. She co-founded the Instigation Festival, celebrating improvised music and dance in Chicago and New Orleans, and serves as Producing Partner for Black Arts Retreat. Casimir taught in the Clara Luper African & African American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma. 

“One of the advantages of being an immigrant is that two very different countries are forced to merge within you. The language you were born speaking and the one you will probably die speaking have no choice but to find a commonplace in your brain and regularly merge there. So too with catastrophes and disasters, which inevitably force you to rethink facile allegiances.”
- Edwidge Danticat