Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp

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Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp is a dance artist, somatic educator, filmmaker. With a BFA in Performing Arts/Dance from Emerson College and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts.  Rose’s interests lie in integrating dance, theater, design, and media. Her desire to integrate social activism into her choreography began with her thesis, focusing on Social Constructionism as it relates to movement.  In addition, she is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA) which has rooted all of her work in somatics and body awareness.  Rose’s choreography is full of weighted athleticism with a slight hint of quirkiness.  She is a lover of the off-vertical and an explorer of movement that traverses 3-dimensional possibilities.  Partnering work and contact improvisation naturally integrate the contemporary dance forms she investigates.

Rose has been extremely active in each Cheryl_Adams_Johnson_Photography-36of the communities she has lived and worked in. As the Artistic Director of inFluxdance and Co-Founder of SirensProof Films, her full-length work has been featured in various cities internationally including Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto and Mexico.  She has been selected for residencies and performance projects including the Dance Complex’s I-ARE Residency in Cambridge MA, Green Street Performance Works Project, Sugar Space Artist in Residence in Salt Lake City UT and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 2009 Choreographers Lab where she received the 2009 Emerging Artist Award. Rose was nominated for the Most Innovative Choreography Award at the Montreal Fringe Festival 2011 for her work with inFluxdance. Her choreography has been shown on the Fringe Festival Circuit where the company was voted Best in Festival at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2007 and 2008. She has danced with many contemporary companies and contact improvisation projects in cities across the. taught at various universities for the past 10 years.These include Emerson College, Alfred University, The College at Brockport and the University of Virginia where, as the Head of Dance, she developed the dance program from the ground up. Much of her artistic research in the academic environment centers around collaboration across disciplines, finding ways to integrate dance with architecture, art, psychology, engineering, art, and music. She has spent a great deal of time presenting at international conferences and dance intensives with a focus on dance and social activism. In 2012 this work culminated in a featured art installation centering around Dance and Social Change at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

Currenty Rose is exploring metaphor as it relates to socio-political art making while serving as AssistantProfessor and Program Coordinator for the School of Dance at Dean College and Director of The Movement Exchange in Pawtucket, RI.

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