She Rose is a project with artist Sioned Huws which aims to explore the relationship between language, landscape, and dance.

The Moving Arts Collective invited Sioned to take part in a research residency in December 2023 and February 2024 to explore Jersey and its rich cultural and natural landscape as well as its native language Jèrriais and its relationship with the cultural landscape of Jersey.

As a Welsh artist language plays an important role in Sioned Huws’s practice and way of approaching movement and community life. Sioned’s work focuses on perception, memory, people, and place within choreographic structures; system patterning small details that allow for the unexpected within a world sensed through an awareness of physical movement.

In projects such as Deer Dance, an ancient dance from Japan, in collaboration with traditional and contemporary dancers and choreographers, Sioned Huws reveals the poetry of dance and community. Her works give voice and body to the complexity of community, landscape, and mythology. Jersey has a rich natural and linguistic heritage which needs to be remembered, celebrated, and danced - an alternative way of keeping them alive through movement.

Movement Workshops will take place with Sioned Huws on Sunday 10 December and Sunday 11 February: 10.30am-4.30pm. This is open to anyone interested in movement (you do not need to be a dancer). Please email themovingartscollective@gmail.com if you would like more information.

Sioned Huws is a Welsh choreographer based in London; her work focuses on systems patterning small details that allow for the unexpected. She trained at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance 1983-86, danced with Transitions 1986-87 and studied at the Merce Cunningham Studios, New York 1988 – 90 where she started making her solo choreographic work. 2011-18 She was recipient of a Creative Wales Ambassadors Award and International Program Award - The Saison Foundation, Tokyo. sionedhuws.net

Supported by The Jersey Community Foundation with funds from the Channel Islands Lottery' and the Government of Jersey - Creative Island Partnership.