Erin O'Rourke
Erin O’Rourke is a Melbourne-based contemporary dance practitioner and researcher, currently at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) undertaking Honours Research. She graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance in 2019, finishing with Distinction and as both the Patricia Macdonald (most outstanding student) Graduate and International Dance Performance Scholarship recipient, travelling to Europe in 2018/19 for various international festivals, most notably, performing in the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. In flux between Brisbane and Melbourne in this covid normal world, Erin is currently engaged in research at the University of Melbourne which looks to dissect and dismantle the perceived notions of 'the dancer' and is working to establish herself in the Melbourne community.
Since graduating in 2019, Erin has engaged widely with the independent scene in Brisbane & surrounds, working on numerous projects within dance film, site specific and performance realms with artists including Claire Marshall, Liesel Zink, Jenni Large, Ashleigh Musk, Bella Hood, Prying Eye Productions, Melissa Lanham (LJ Projects), Courtney Scheu, Phluxus2 Dance Collective and Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance, as well as understudying for Australasian Dance Collective’s season of Aftermath.
Since graduating in 2019, Erin has engaged widely with the independent scene in Brisbane & surrounds, working on numerous projects within dance film, site specific and performance realms with artists including Claire Marshall, Liesel Zink, Jenni Large, Ashleigh Musk, Bella Hood, Prying Eye Productions, Melissa Lanham (LJ Projects), Courtney Scheu, Phluxus2 Dance Collective and Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance, as well as understudying for Australasian Dance Collective’s season of Aftermath.
In 2020, Erin worked with Claire Marshall on dance film project, Void. Throughout 2021, Void has been selected for programming in the Dance (Lens) Festival at Dancehouse Melbourne, Open Vision Film Festival in Moscow, Russia, 11th Festival de Cine-Arte en la Frontera, in San CristóbalVenezuela, Thessaloniki Cinedance International in Greece, and TDP’21 International Dance Festival (Screendance Selection) in Ireland in 2021. Erin performed at QPAC as part of World Science Festival Brisbane in Liesel Zink's Awesome and most recently worked with Jenni Large, Ashleigh Musk and Bella Hood during their RE-Model Creative Development for the month of July (2021) at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Dance (QLD).
Additionally, since the start of 2021, Erin has worked in the Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance (QLD) team, part time as their Project and Communications Officer, honing producing, social media management and curating skills.
Additionally, since the start of 2021, Erin has worked in the Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance (QLD) team, part time as their Project and Communications Officer, honing producing, social media management and curating skills.
Current Program
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