She Rose is a project with artist Sioned Huws that celebrates the connection between body, language, and landscape.
We 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 our upcoming events in May 2025 we welcome everyone, with or without a background in dance, to weave a thread, by way of their bodies, with Jèrriais. Breton dance serves as both a guide and a metaphor—a thread that holds together the edges of landscape, language, and the body. The choreography is not predetermined; instead, it emerges from the collective spirit of those who respond to the invitation, weaving and unweaving its own form. Little fingers link one person to another, embodying the limitless possibilities of a living language.
She Rose invites Jersey residents to join Sioned Huws, an internationally renowned Welsh dancer, along with the singing bodies of two Breton singers Sterenn Diridollou and Marine Lavigne, and Azenor Kallag, a Breton dancer, in creating a collective dance.
Find out more about upcoming She Rose events and workshops in the links below:
Open Workshops - Come learn and dance with us
The Square @Cyril Le Marquand Court (outside Jersey Arts Centre)
Thursday 1 May: 12-2pm / 6-8pm (drop in)
Friday 2 May: 12-2pm (drop in)
Friday 2 May. 6pm @ Cyril Le Marquand Court - Come watch and take part.
Saturday 3 May, 3pm @ Le Pinacle - Come watch a performance - please book.
Produced by The Moving Arts Collective. Supported by the Jersey Community Foundation with funds from the Channel Islands Lottery' and the Government of Jersey - Creative Island Partnership and with two artist residencies hosted by ArtHouse Jersey.
Artist - Sioned Huws
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.
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.