Rosie Stebbing

Date:

Mon 1 Jan 2024 - Sat 3 Feb 2024

Time:

10:00 - 12:00

Rosie plans to use this residency in order to carry out conceptual and movement research for the development of a new work. This will be a continuation of a process initiated by Dance Ireland’s HATCH Mentorship Award, which Rosie received in 2023. Inspired by the mentoring process, her approach will focus on drawing together various sources of inspiration, and finding the thread which binds these influences together through sessions of improvisation and composition. Using imagery of puppetry and masks as a point of departure, she is interested in exploring the animate versus the inanimate body. What is the force that animates a live body? How can it be manipulated, in order to animate one body in multiple ways? And how can a dancer puppeteer their own body?

Rosie is fascinated by the concept of the body as a kind of malleable clay with which myriad creatures, characters and expressions can be formed, broken down and then formed again into something new. She hopes to explore this idea as a choreographic methodology during her residency as the starting point for a new live piece. She will be joined by composer Louis Younge in the studio for one day in order to discuss ideas for the development of a score for the work.

Learn more about Rosie:

After studying at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK) on their foundation course, she moved to the Netherlands to train at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, graduating with a BA(Hons) in Dance in 2021. During the final year of her studies she joined Holstebro Dansekompagni in Denmark as an apprentice dancer, performing and touring in works by the company.

Since graduating she has worked as a dancer and performer with CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre, Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc, Emily Aoibheann and Peter Power/Sparsile Collective. Her choreographic debut TEST 1 (co-created and performed with Ornella Dufay-Miralles) premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022 and was winner of the Judges’ Choice Award. Rosie has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through the Dance Agility and Bursary Awards, and was the recipient of Dance Ireland’s HATCH Mentorship Award 2023. As a teacher Rosie has led classes and workshops for Danish Talent Academy, Dance Limerick, Irish Aerial Dance Festival, Pushkin Trust and Dublin Youth Dance Company.

Collaborators: Louis Younge

Louis Younge is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and session musician based in Dublin. He is a member of bands Bricknasty and Sky Atlas, and has worked with a range of artists including David Keenan, Tolu Makay, Gemma Dunleavy and Shiv.