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Rebecca Jensen
Rebecca Jensen is a dancer, choreographer and teacher from Aotearoa/New Zealand, based in Naarm/Melbourne Australia. Her work is rooted in dance but takes whatever form it needs to express an idea, extending into visual arts, sound, community and site-specific contexts. Her practice considers the equally speculative and practical forces of dance practice, with sustaining interests in multiplicity, memory, time and the influence of expanding digital technologies. Several of her ongoing projects examine social and ecological systems through improvised group dances. POSE BAND (2015), Deep Sea Dances (2017) and Sinkhole with Jesse Gall and Arini Byng (2018–present). In 2013, she co-founded ongoing participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats with Sarah Aiken facilitating dance parties to immersive theatrical experiences. Their collaborative work investigates and subverts the roles of performance, considering complicity and commonality of audience and performer and the complexity of national identity and relationship to environment. Work includes What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD) (2019), Underworld (2017), OVERWORLD (2014). She is heavily informed by her regular work as a dancer and facilitator; notably, she has worked with choreographer Jo Lloyd since 2010 alongside many reputable artists including Lucy Guerin inc, Shelley Lasica, Sandra Parker, Lilian Steiner, Atlanta Eke, Lee Serle, Nathan Gray, Ben Speth, Natalie Abbott and Rennie MacDougall. She collaboratively facilitates Liveness, a dance improvisation performance event, arts/activism workshop series The Green Bee and practice sharing session On The Table. She holds a Bachelor of Dance from the Victorian Collage of The Arts, Melbourne University.