Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany defines her practice as a spilling, an overflow-ing/s of words, gestures and actions that encompass speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s.

Romany has performed and worked internationally with: Germinal (Bolivia) The Judson Church & The Movement Research Centre (NYC), Organizmo, La Casa de Meria, La Compañía, Con Cuerpos & Mapa Teatro (Colombia), Encuentros (Brazil), Siobhan Davies Studies & The Swiss Church (London), XOXO Curatorial Projects & The Volksbuhne Theatre (Berlin). Romany is one of the founders of Glasgow Open Dance School (2021) working with Arika, The CCA, and The WorkRoom, DCA & Market Gallery (Scotland). Romany has an MA in Interdisciplinary Live Arts, Crip Theories and Feminist Cartographies from the National University of Bogota, Colombia. (2021) and is currently working as co-director of the new temporary masters program, Monstrous Futurities at Sandberg Institution, Amsterdam.

At Cove Park, Romany will be attending to different bodies of her research through a process-led, month-long residency. Curiously and critically enquiring, developing and playing with ‘constellations of together-mess’. Working with configurations of threes, both as a metaphor and as methodology to create proposals and responses that are rooted in intimacy, reciprocity and the possibilities for co-existence. Romany will cruise through movement practices, body-object-land dwellings and text/word based spilling/s.

At different moments during their residency, Romany will be accompanied by collaborators: Zephyr Liddell, Ashanti Harris, Juana Del Mar, Sussane Grau, Jen Martin and Liz Rosenfeld.