Rosie Kay

Rosie Kay trained at London Contemporary Dance School, creating solo  work while performing in Poland, France, the US and Germany, before  forming Rosie Kay Dance Company in 2004.  Kay has created award-winning  works that include; Sluts of Possession (2013) in collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum, There is Hope (2012) exploring religion, 5 SOLDIERS – The Body Is The Frontline (2010-2017), and Double Points: K (2008) in collaboration with Emio Greco| PC.  Site-specific works include Haining Dreaming (2013), The Great Train Dance (2011) on the Severn Valley Railway, and Ballet on the Buses (2007). Kay creates installation and dance films: 5 SOLDIERS – the film,  was exhibited at The Herbert Gallery Coventry, Stadtmuseum Dresden and  is in the film collection of la Médiathèque du Centre National de la  Danse, Paris. Feature Film credits include choreographer for Sunshine on Leith (2013).

Awards include 1st Prize Choreography, International Solo Dance  Festival Stuttgart, Award from The Queen as ‘Young Achiever of  Scotland’, Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award and nominated as Best  Independent Company, National Dance Awards, Critics Circle. Kay is a  Fellow of the Royal Society of Artists, and an MCR of St Cross College,  Oxford.

Kay was the first Leverhulme Artist in Residence to the School of  Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, 2013-2014,  and is currently Research Associate, with papers published in Medical  Humanities and a book chapter published by Oxford University Press on  ‘War and Choreography’. Kay became the first associate artist of  DanceXchange in 2004.

Source: http://rosiekay.co.uk