Rebecca Jensen

Rebecca Jensen (1988) is a dancer based in Naarm/Melbourne.  She  teaches dance, makes performances, and performs regularly in the work of other artists. Her projects are rooted in dance but take on whatever form they need to, working with the specificity of dancerly thinking; live, complex, change-oriented, contradictory, non-linear, multiple.

Notable works include Deep Sea Dances Dance Massive 2017, Artshouse; Explorer Kier Choreographic Award finalist 2016; Sinkholewith Jess Gall and Arini Byng, Designhub RMIT, 215 Albion, Irene Rose Gallery 2018, MPavillion 2020. Shorter works have been presented by Experimental Dance Week Auckland, Tiny Festival Christchurch, Venice Biennale International Dance Festival, Victorian College of the Arts, Liquid Architecture, Spring 1883 Windsor Hotel, Lucy Guerin Pieces for Small Spaces.

With Sarah Aiken she has presented Underworld, (Darebin Arts Melbourne, Supercell Festival Brisbane 2017, Melbourne Knowledge week 2019); OVERWORLD (Next Wave Festival 2014, Dance Massive Melbourne 2015) and What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD) Art Centre Melbourne/Melbourne Fringe Take Over! 2019. Sometimes participatory, Bec and Sarahs work considers our relationships to each other,  national identity, environment and a warming climate. Together they founded participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats(2013-ongoing) presented across Australia and abroad.

Rebecca collaborates and performs with a range of artists including Jo Lloyd, Shelley Lasica, Lucy Guerin Inc, Lilian Steiner, Amos Gerhardt, Atlanta Eke, Sandra Parker, Lee Serle, Natalie Abbott, Nathan Gray, Public Movement (Israel). Rebecca was a recipient of DanceWEB Europe scholarship Vienna 2015, artist in residence at Phillip Adams Balletlab, Temperance Hall 2018, and a recipient of the Australia Council Cité Internationale des Arts residency, Paris. Rebecca’s teaching work is an integral part of artistic practice and feeds her enduring interest in how movement is transmitted, cited, embodied and shared, how we connect with our bodies and each other.