The Canada Council for the Arts has awarded the 2009 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize to Judith Marcuse. The artistic director, producer and choreographer is the founder and co-director of the International Centre of Art for Social Change, a partnership between SFU and Judith Marcuse Projects. The $6,000 prize is awarded annually in memory of Montreal dancer and ballet teacher Jacqueline Lemieux-Lopez to the most deserving applicant in the Canada Council Grants to Dance Professionals program. Marcuse received an honorary doctorate from SFU in 2000.