Lex Rooney

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

Lecturer: Dance. School of Music and Performing Arts.

Personal Statement:

Lex has been teaching in the Dance department at Bath Spa since 2008, becoming a permanent member of the team in 2011. She has a passion for teaching and has taught in a variety of settings from Higher Education to youth and community projects including work with adults and young people with social, physical and learning difficulties. She was Co-Founder of Train of Thought, an Arts-based educational co-operative; developing and delivering a series of free-thinking, multidisciplinary creative workshops to young people across the South West. Lex is an experienced performer, working in Dance, Theatre and Film. She currently performs with The Bureau of Random Acts (Bristol), Swerve Dance Theatre Company (associate company of Swindon Dance) and has recently performed in Willi Dorner's Bodies in Urban Spaces.

Professional Qualifications:

2007 - MA European Dance Theatre Practice, Laban

2006 - BA (hons) Dance, Bath Spa University

Teaching Specialties:

Dance Theatre

Choreography

Contemporary Dance Technique

Key Publications/Performances:

2011 - 'A Glutton for Love' (short film) collaboration with Jaime Bullock (Magic Torch Productions)

2007 - 'Don't Believe Your Eyes' (MA Thesis) Investigating 'Reality', Perception & Identity. Laban, London.

2007 - 'Don't Believe Your Eyes' (Theatre Production), Bonnie Bird Theatre. Laban, London

2007 - 'My Dog Ate My Nana and I Married a Fox' (site specific durational installation) collaboration with Kate Webster (Kit & Kaboodle) Laban, London.

2005 - 'Dubyah' Short film inspired by the methodologies of Bertolt Brecht.

Professional Performances:

2011:

'Bride School' The Bureau of Random Acts - Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire

'Familia', 'Chimp Juice' & 'The Chimps' (walkabout) - The Bureau of Random Acts - Boomtown Fair, Winchester

'The Chimps' (walkabout) - The Bureau of Random Acts - Larmer Tree Festival, Dorset

'Wanderlust' Choreographed by Hannah De Cancho - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Bristol Harbourside Festival, Swindon Dance and Cowley Road Carnival, Oxford.

'Chimp Juice', 'Familia' & 'The Vows' - The Bureau of Random Acts - Maker Sunshine Festival, Cornwall

'Bodies in Urban Spaces' - Willi Dorner - Bristol and Margate

'Chimp Juice' - The Bureau of Random Acts - Electric Garden (for Rolling Stage) - Mayfest, Bristol

'The Vows' - The Bureau of Random Acts - Monarch Bollock Cabaret (for Rolling Stage), Bristol

2010:

'The Chimps' & 'Bride School' - The Bureau of Random Acts - Brisfest, Boomtown Fair, Larmer Tree Festival & Bristol Festival of Nature

'Swerve hors D'oeuvres' Cabaret - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Swindon Dance

'Chimp Sweatshop' (installation) & 'Familia' - The Bureau of Random Acts @ Carnyville - The Invisible Circus, Bristol

'Tall Stories' choreographed by Helen Ganberg - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Cheltenham Festival of Literature & Swindon Festival of Literature

'Five' choreographed by Laila Diallo - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Woking Dance Festival

2009:

'Tall Stories' choreographed by Helen Ganberg - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Southerly Exposure

'Order Me and I'll Behave You Like a Dog' - Kit & Kaboodle - Arcola Theatre, London

'An Evening with Swerve' - Swerve Dance Theatre Company - Swindon Dance

'Dear Body' (local cast) - Protein Dance - Wyvern Theatre, Swindon

2007:

'Chair/Pillow' choreographed by Yvonne Rainer (reconstructed by Claire Henderson Davies for FallingWide) - Toynbee Studios, London

'Burlesque Fairytales' (Independent feature film) - Double Barrel Productions, London

2006:

'Architecting the Body' - ICIA Theatre, Bath & University Theatre, Exeter

2005:

'Going Down' (short film) - Dir, Will West, Catfight Productions, Bristol

2004:

'Sole' (short film) - Dir. Jody Owens, Strictly Visions, Bristol

'Lunch Break' (short film) - Dir, Will West, Catfight Productions, Bristol

2003:

'Dionysus' (short Film) - Dir. Ben Cato, Cling Films, Bristol

'The Vagina Monologues' (theatre) Fairy77 Productions - Cube Microplex, Bristol & Royal Albert Hall, London

Current Scholarship:

Following on from her MA research, Lex is interested in the Semiotics of the Theatre. In particular, the ways in which the creator is able to draw upon and manipulate the audience's understanding and interpretation of language to suggest and create layers of possible meaning within the work.

Lex is currently investigating these ideas through collaborative explorations in music, costume and video.

She is also studying Bikram Yoga and Traditional Pan African Dance

External Roles:

Recently appointed Head of Movement at Circomedia Academy for Circus Arts and Physical Theatre, Bristol.