CHOREOGRAPHY (selected)
In Relation, 2009
A collaborative dance and letter project with choreographer Hannah Schwandron.
Run time: 10 min
Curl, 2009
Teasing the relationships women have with their hair. Run time: 6 min
Performing Girlfriend, 2008
A duet examining how we version, exaggerate, and camouflage ourselves as we attempt to appear more attractive to a romantic partner. Turning a critical eye towards the presentational aspect of romance. Run time: 15 min
Women, 4 Shoes, 2 Chairs, 1 Room and a Cake, 2007
M.F.A Thesis Project University of California, Riverside.A gallery of sculptural choreographies and evocative dance films where domestic nostalgia frames intimate portraits of six women. Run time: 2 hours
I Do, 2006
A solo choreography parodying the bittersweet ritual and expectation of marriage with humorous gesture and deadpan performance. Run time: 5 min
The Grand Gesture, 2005
A co-choreographed and performed duet with Sue Roginski generated from domestic action and gesture. Run time: 8 min
The Window Seat Diaries, 2004
A co-choreographed and performed duet with C-c Braun featuring dance film projection directed by Rosie Trump. Inspired by female companionship. Run time: 8 min
FILMOGRAPHY
On the Hill: Video Installation Project, 2008
Director, choreographer, and editor of a video navigating a peculiar landscape of movement, light, and object with a lo-fi approach. Run time: 45 min
Second Story Projection Video, 2008 Commissioned projection video of Julian Morgan architecture for choreographer Wendy Rogers. Run time: 3min
about the house, 2007
Director, choreographer, and editor of high definition dance film. With a precocious cat in tow, a lone woman reveals her peculiar relationship with her abode. Presented by Dance Camera West Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Run time: 10 min
luma, 2006
Director, choreographer, performer, and editor of dance film. A noir-styled study of light as an object. Run time: 3min
two divided by two, 2005
Director, choreographer, and editor of dance film. In a movement-based world, distinctly fragmented and visually warped, two women wrestles with their own undeniable dichotomy. Run time: 7min
Between Earth and Sky, 2004
Directed, choreographed and edited dance film. An exploration of what lies between the blue blue above and the green below. Run time: 3min
is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, performer, educator and the artistic director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance. With a hybrid artistic practice, Trump’s work navigates the creative fusion between dance and media. Her work examines subject matter such as representations of femininity, domesticity, identity and intimacy.
She has presented her choreography and films regionally throughout Southern California and the Northeastern United States. Recently, her work was presented by Big Range Dance Festival in Houston, Project 21 at Cal State San Bernardino, and by Anatomy Riot in Los Angeles, CA. As a performer, Trump has danced for Alison Bory, Ann Carlson, Stephen Koplowitz and April Rhodes, Ursula Payne, Hannah Schwadron, and Sue Roginski. She is the editor of the dance blog Reading the Dance.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Trump graduated from Slippery Rock University Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Dance. Trump received a MFA in Experimental Dance Choreography from UC Riverside in 2007 where she was a three-time recipient of the Gluck Fellowship of the Arts and a recipient of the Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant. She has taught dance at Seton Hill University and Mt. San Jacinto College. Currently, she is the Assistant Director of the Rice University dance program and the Artistic Director of the Rice University Dance Theater.
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