about.
Dance Practitioner.
Collaborator.
Creative.
Erin O’Rourke is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and researcher based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia. Erin has performed in festivals across Australia and beyond including Brisbane Festival, Bleach* Festival (Gold Coast), Melbourne Now, Mona Foma (Tasmania), Now or Never Festival (Melbourne), Yirrimboi Festival (Melbourne), and Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), working with notable artists including The Farm, Jenni Large and Harrison Hall. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from Queensland University of Technology (2019) and First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne (2021).
In 2026, Erin expanded her improvisation practice through a month-long intensive with David Zambrano at TicTac Art Centre (Brussels), supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, and Mystery School with Meg Stuart, facilitated by The Farm (Gold Coast). She was selected for the prestigious Impulstanz ATLAS choreographic program in Vienna across July/August 2026, her involvement supported by Brisbane City Council (Lord Mayor's Creative Fellowship). She 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. She has choreographed works for The Australian Ballet, Australasian Dance Collective (Youth Ensemble), Transit Dance, and independently for Dancehouse X Melbourne Fringe Festival. Her choreographic work is interested in the body as a site of labour, agency and resistance, centring women’s lived experience within patriarchal society.