Dance Ireland Residency: Róisín Whelan

Dance Ireland Residency: Róisín Whelan

Date:
Mon 3 Mar 2025 - Fri 7 Mar 2025
Time:
10:00 - 18:00
Venue:
DanceHouse

Róisín Whelan is the receipient of a Dance Ireland Residency in 2025. 

About Róisín Whelan's Residency Plans

Róisín will be using this week in residency to explore starting points for creating dance work and original scores for live musicians and dance. As a new venture for Róisín, she will spend the week working with composer Aoife Kavanagh on brainstorming ways to create innovative methods of collaborating with a composer to make a score for live musicians that acts as a soundscape for new dance work.

About Róisín Whelan

As an artist Róisín's ambition is to create narrative dance theatre works that are accessible to all, regardless of their age, gender or socio-economic background. Gate theatre credits include, Movement Rehearsal Director of Fun Home and Choreographic Advisor for Circle Mirror Transformation.

Theatre credits as Choreographer include Íomhá (Carlow Arts Festival/Arts Council Ireland), The Glasshouse (Ballet Ireland), Man Down (R.W.D/Arts Council Ireland), The Galaxy of Occupations (R.W.D/Dublin City Council, Tipperary Dance), The Tipsy Flamingo (Valencia Dancing Forward, Spain) and Parting Glass (University of Malta).

Film and TV credits include; Choreographer of Moonhaven (AMC), Sanctuary (AMC,) The Tourist, Season 2 (BBC). Dancer in Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet (More2Screen/Sky Arts).

Other credits include: Assistant Movement Director for Hansel and Gretel, Eugene Onegin, Festern (Royal Opera House, London), Der Freischutz and Madame Butterfly (Bregenz Festspiele), La Gioconda (Osterfestspiele, Salzburg).

Róisín was awarded the prestigious PROPEL Award, a three-year award funded by the Strollers Network, Ireland’s largest consortium of Arts Centres and the Ballet Ireland’s Emerging Choreographer Award.

Find out about other Dance Ireland Residency Recipients here.