Liz Roche is the choreographer and Artistic Director of Liz Roche Company. Since 1999, the company has produced and toured her works performing throughout Ireland and internationally, most notably at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New York, The Abbey Theatre, The South Bank Centre, London and Powerhouse Brisbane. Her work has been commissioned by The Abbey Theatre, Dublin Dance Festival, Cork Opera House, The National Ballet of China, Goethe Institut and Solas Nua, Washington D.C. amongst others. Her 2015 work Bastard Amber was the first full length dance work ever to be commissioned from an Irish choreographer for the Abbey Theatre. In 2020 Liz was elected to Aosdána in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. She has choreographed extensively for opera and theatre productions most notably for the Abbey Theatre, Irish National Opera, The Gate Theatre, Landmark productions, Opernhaus Zurich, Rossini Opera Festival and the National Opera of Korea in Seoul. As a dancer she worked with choreographers Rosemary Butcher (UK), Jodi Melnick (USA), John Jasperse (USA), Les Carnets Bagouet, Cathala & Ramalingom, (France) Christine Gaigg 2nd Nature (Vienna) and CoisCeim (IRE) amongst others.

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