about.
Dance Practitioner.
Collaborator.
Creative.
Erin O’Rourke is an award winning contemporary dancer, choreographer and researcher based across Meanjin and Naarm. Erin has performed in festivals across Australia and beyond including Melbourne Now, Mona Foma (Tasmania), Now or Never Festival (Melbourne), Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance (QLD), and Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), working with notable artists: Jenni Large, Harrison Hall, and The Farm. Her recent choreographic credits include 'TUG' presented in The Australian Ballet's Bodytorque season 2024 (mentored by Stephanie Lake and David Hallberg), ‘object-shun’ for Dancehouse X Melbourne Fringe Festival 2023 and ‘when the water gets cold’ for Transit Dance, all concerned with depictions of women, in media and myth. Erin was awarded The Australian Ballet/Telstra Emerging Choreographer in 2022 for her dance film ‘yellow mellow’ which has since shown at Dancehouse’ Dance (Lens) Official Selection.
Completing Honours Research at The University of Melbourne in 2021, Erin’s continuing research focuses on the multiplicity of the dancer as they dismantle and challenge their moving identity in working with numerous artists. She holds deep curiosity in exposing the movement that emerges through working with a wide variety of artists, and is invested in giving the dancer a voice, privileging the dancer’s value in and of itself.