About
Rosa Allegra Wolff is an electric and honest artist. They are a performer with the Bill T. Jones Arnie/Zane Dance Company, choreographer, and photographer – a full circle creator. Moving and crafting for Rosa is about rooting, discovering, and growing the seeds of community that exist in each of us.
Rosa grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and graduated from George Mason School of Dance in 2023. They have had the honor of working with artists including Bill T. Jones, Yoshiko Chuma, Heather Robles, Christina Robson, Lawrence Jackson, Joseph Hernandez, and Brandon Dicrisco.
In their professional career, Rosa has presented twelve interdisciplinary works – weaving in self-produced music and personal writing – with collaboration from multimedia artists. Their creations encapsulate honesty through amorphous shapes.
photo by Stephanie Crousillat
contact to say hi, for commissions, teaching, and photoshoots!
Latest Work
Home, Returning?
Created with the New Choreographer Grant
WHY I CREATE
Gentle power lives in honest stories. Tenderly told, they pull out truth. This is what I yearn for when I move and create —— unexpected truths that reveal themselves through shifting amorphous shapes. Dancing is my way to feel alive and to spread life, in its many directions.
Movement has the power to shift the way people interact with life. I am a story teller –– curious about rooting, discovering, and growing the seeds of community that exist in each of us. Community is not just a feeling; it has a buoyant physical structure. This sparks vast and internal reflection among audiences to make shifts in how they interact with life.
Photo by Jessie Ferguson
Dance
I find the most joy in moving when I stretch my skeletal system beyond what I thought possible. This action lives in the dance training I have immersed myself in, and beyond the structures of codified movement. Improvisation and acting is part of my daily practice. I am a collaborator, crafter of ideas, and believer that all movers are wizards. We constantly form and shift energy. I love collaborating on dance works, films, and putting movement in unexpected places, like dancing inside the clothes of a life-sized stuffed human. I am eager to dive into wonderfully weird endeavors, capturing the melancholy complexities of our world.
Photos by Jessie Ferguson
Choreography
When I lead a creative process I begin by asking each contributor to express their current mindset with a sound sentence. We sound in a circle, taking in the vibrations. This sets the tone that my practice originates from, and listens to, the gut. My process combines raw, group-improvisation tasks and my intuitive movement.
photos by Jessie Ferguson
My professional dance and choreography experience is intertwined with my approach to each image. Every person and story has a shape.
In a studio setting, my process starts with a group shake and a spiritual check-in. Through speaking, drawing, or creative-movement, we form images true to the subject/s’ soul. My photography practice finds the shape of each person's desired narrative. This creates honest pictures — — honest stories.
