Rocio Dominguez – MANY MEs

Rocio will work on her upcoming piece MANY MEs, which explores the constant search for the culmination of a rite of passage. It speaks about the death of a sister, the remaining wounds of a violent relationship, and missing home. Rocío immerses herself in the ideas of mourning and uprooting, and investigates a space of no-time. In this space, the dancer is trapped in an attempt to conclude a rite of passage, in order to move on to the following step.

In MANY MEs, Rocío has the collaboration of music composer Ingrid Bocek, and visual artist Ross Ryder, with whom she explores the possibility of conceiving hologram effects within the scene. During her residency at Firkin Crane, Rocio will work together with visual artist Ross Ryder, lighting designer Gearoid O’Hallmhurain, and filmmaker Patricio Cassinoni on the visual and lighting design aspects of the piece, as well as taking promotional shots and filming for a trailer of the piece. MANY MEs is produced by Greta Bourke.

Rocío Dominguez is a dance artist based in Dublin. She has worked as dancer, choreographer and assistant choreographer with Junk Ensemble, Alexandre Iseli, Luke Murphy, Loosysmokes, Anna Newell Theatre Company, BrokenCrow Theatre Company, Croí Glan Integrated Dance, Polina Kremasta and Joclecio Azevedo among others, in Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Argentina. Rocio is the co-curator of the Irish platform for international training TW1.

Rocio has been supported through awards and residencies from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Dance Ireland, Shawbrook, Tipperary Dance, Tenerife Lav, and Ensimismados (Costa Rica). She has been selected as a guest artist for Artists' Encounter, Spring Forward Festival Aerowaves in Dublin 2023, and as International Artist in Residency for the program Between Us/Eadrainn between Ireland and Scotland, 2023. Rocio was Associate Artist for Tipperary Dance in 2022, and has received the first fellowship by Tipperary Dance from 2018 to 2019.

Rocio has created the pieces War (Faculty of Architecture of Porto 2018), and Mental Make-Up (Teatro Campo Alegre 2018), and showed the work in progress of Don't Stop And You Won't Notice (Dance Ireland, 2023) and MANY MEs (Teatro Leal, Tenerife, 2022). Other recent work includes artistic director for Ages in Stages commissioned by Tipperary Dance, as well as mentoring the senior students of Dublin Youth Dance Company for their final year pieces.