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The conversation with the body is a gift. Let us say that, without syntax, without an invented language, the body is the channel that hones the sensitivity for the communication with nature and humanity. The relationship between the body and its landscape is a significant resource and this an artistic dance in itself. When there is trust, this amorphous instrument might know us more than we know it!

 

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Being chubby and clumsy, Rochelle was never in line with the other prim and proper petites. Yes, there was a struggle, but also perseverance, eventually gaining an understanding of the power of movement. The chubbiness sometimes transformed into soft grounding, and the clumsiness became a resource for the play of balance. Movement can carve, provoke, and reveal an endless shift of states. With openness, there are moments where one can find the clown without putting on the red nose; there are days where one can be a boy as much as the wish to be a girl. There are paths to explore ancestry and other paths that curiously revisit the early years of life. The human body has many powers and it can attune to the joys and pains of other bodies. Luckily, this is more instant and more connected than any other connection in the virtual and non-human realm. Nothing can replicate this human power.

 

Rochelle’s instrument started to rock in her mother’s womb and at the age of pooping in a potty, she went to her first ballet class. This classical background led to other paths connected to athletics, swimming, gymnastics, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, and capoeira.

 

Rochelle explored the skeletal anatomy at UOM (University Of Malta) towards the profession of a diagnostic Radiographer (2007). Subsequently, she followed a dance bachelor program in the School Of Performing Arts, UOM (2012). In 2019, Rochelle dived into a master's program for physical theatre in Switzerland at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri. The artistic desires are to work in interdisciplinary contexts and to endlessly research the emotive & comic movement language. Rochelle's present freelance projects include performance, pedagogy, direction, and choreography. Currently, she is an educator of Performing Arts at the MCAST Institution. There is a big passion for exploring play and actively changing landscapes with the movement cultures of Fighting Monkey and the movement language of Gaga. For the last two years, Rochelle has been training and refining therapeutic approaches for community practices mostly connected to movement at EGS (Saas Fee, Switzerland), BISO (Ireland, Belgium), and EXIT (Malta).