Róisín Whelan

Date:

Mon 1 Jan 2024 - Sat 3 Feb 2024

Time:

10:00 - 12:00

Roisin will be spending her time at Dance Ireland developing themes, concepts and ideas around creating her first full length, solo work. As an artist Roisin has been working with a group of dancers over the past two years but haven’t focused on creating work on herself, on her own physical form. Movement as a language can be enhanced by text, and language can create movement that is intricate whilst being delicate, drawing out subtext through movement as the words reveal the narrative.

Roisin would like to use movement and speech in her own work to challenge her physicality and practice, it will give her a chance to be fearless without the confines of presentation and the opportunity to explore these concepts within a safe space. Roisin wants to push her own physicality and create within her own body, a confidence that throws caution to the wind. Roisin wants to use this time to create the strength in her own movement language to speak her voice and allow her physicality and movement practice to evolve beyond its own limitations.

Learn more about Róisín

Róisín Whelan is a choreographer and facilitator who creates highly physical and technically demanding work with strong narratives that are accessible to all regardless of their gender, sexuality or socio-economic background.

Her recent choreographic work includes ‘The Glasshouse’, commissioned by Ballet Ireland; ‘The Parting Glass’ commissioned by The University of Malta, ‘The Tipsy Flamingo’ commissioned by Valencia Dancing Forward, ‘The Galaxy of Occupations’ commissioned by Tipperary Dance and a Dublin City Council Creative Hubs, and Man Down funded by The Arts Council Project Award 2022 & Touring Award 2023.Róisín holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts and Master of Performance (Distinction) from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

Before setting up her own company, she performed extensively with Black Box Dance Company (Denmark), Matthew Bourne’s award-winning New Adventures (UK), and Bregenz Festspeile (Austria).

Róisín is the recipient of the inaugural Propel Award, a three-year-long artist development and mentorship program funded by the Strollers Network, Ireland’s largest consortium of Arts Centres. She is also a member of the Northern Ireland Opera Open Studio Programme as an emerging choreographer. She is currently assistant to the choreographer for the Christmas production of Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House in London.