Regina Rocke is a free-lance artist who has been involved with dance since childhood. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from Arizona State University in 2004, and her MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival in 2006. Her work has been shown at the American College Dance Festival Association, The American Dance Festival, Hollins University, Movement Research at the Judson Church, AUNTS is Dance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Austrian Cultural Forum, and Rush Arts. Rocke has also presented her work at The Chocolate Factory, DRAFTWORKS at St. Marks Church, Dixon Place, SCOPE NY as well as Art Basal Miami.

In spring of 2008, she performed her work, The Passion of Jen Mcginn as part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series and Daddy Dreams 2008 for an exchange with Austrian choreographers as part of Movement Research Festival’s Trasversality Lab. She has also performed as part of an exchange through Movement Research and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium performing Jerome Bel’s The Show Must Go On. Most recently, she was part of the group show The Happening: Kinesics as Art Object at Rush Arts in NYC as well as being co-curator of the Movement Research 2009 Spring Festival. She has also been host/curator of Dixon Place’s BodyBlend series on multiple occasions.

Photo by Christy Pessagno