Tessa Hall NZ

Originally from New Zealand, Tessa Hall graduated from the P.A.R.T.S. Training Cycle in 2019 and the STUDIOS in 2021. Her versatile practice spans performing, researching, and writing, which she views as the interconnected motors of her artistic work. Since 2020, she has been involved with Rosas as a researcher, writer and dancer performing in productions such as Drumming and Forêt. She collaborates closely with artists such as Julia Rubies Subrios, Jacob Storer, Maaike Neuville, and Némo Flouret with whom she appears in works 900 Something Days Spent in 20th Century and Derniers Feux. Aside from the stage, Tessa currently works as a researcher in the Danserfgoed department of STUK, specifically on projects within DanceMap. DanceMap is a Europe-wide network focused on promoting contemporary dance heritage and safeguarding the field in the future. Her research centres around methods of dance historiography.