about.
Dance Practitioner.
Collaborator.
Creative.
Erin O’Rourke is a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary dancer, choreographer and researcher. Erin was awarded The Australian Ballet/Telstra Emerging Choreographer in 2022 for her dance film ‘yellow mellow’. In 2023, ‘yellow mellow’ was a part of Dancehouse’ Dance (Lens) Official Selection. Erin’s most recent choreographic credits include ‘object-shun’ for Melbourne Fringe Festival X Dancehouse and ‘when the water gets cold’ for Transit Dance, both concerned with depictions of women, in media and myth. Her performance work includes Alicia Frankovich’s Rich in World/Poor in World at NGV Australia as a part of Melbourne Now, Jenni Large’s Body Body Commodity in Mona Foma (Tasmania), and Harrison Hall, Sam McGIip and NAXS Future’s Body Crysis at ACMI for Now or Never Festival (Melbourne), Claire Marshall’s dance film Void, City Horses in Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, Liesel Zink’s Awesome at World Science Festival Brisbane, and Soundline at Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria).
Erin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance Performance) from QUT (Brisbane) and continued on to Honours Research at the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), finishing with First Class Honours. Erin’s research focused on the multiplicity of the dancer as they dismantle and challenge their moving identity in working with numerous artists. She is invested in giving the dancer a voice, privileging the dancer’s value in and of itself.