Faculty

Biography

Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp (CLMA, MFA) is a dance artist, educator, and filmmaker based in Rochester, NY. She is Professor of Dance at the University of Rochester's Program of Dance and Movement, Artistic Director of electricGrit dance, and co-director of Echolab and The Wild Register. A Certified Movement Analyst, her work is rooted in somatics and body awareness, with artistic research centered on interdisciplinary collaboration, social justice, dance as a change agent, and the embodiment of activism.

Rose holds an MFA in dance from CalArts and has taught movement practices for over 20 years at institutions including Alfred University, The College at Brockport, Dean College, and the University of Virginia. For over two decades, her choreographic work — known for integrating dance, theater, design, and media — has been featured internationally through electricGrit dance, inFluxdance, SirensProof Films, and The Wild Register.

She has been selected for numerous residencies and honors, including the 2020 Western NY Choreographers' Initiative Award (NYS Dance Force), the Jacob's Pillow Choreographers Lab (2009 Emerging Artist Award), the Dance Complex's I-ARE Residency and Green Street Performance Works Project in Cambridge, MA, and Sugar Space Artist in Residence in Salt Lake City. Her company was voted Best in Festival at the San Francisco Fringe Festival (2007, 2008) and nominated for Most Innovative Choreography at the Montreal Fringe Festival (2011, 2023). In 2012, her work was featured in a Dance and Social Change installation at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Her work has toured to festivals including Detroit's Assemble Festival, the Southern Vermont Dance Festival, the Richmond Contemporary Dance Festival, and the Rochester International Fringe Festival, where her most recent full-length work premiered in 2026.

In 2016, Rose co-founded Artists Coalition for Change Together (ACCT), which engaged dancer-citizens in Rochester and beyond through 2020. She has received multiple grants from the University of Rochester's Center for Community Engagement and serves as a Faculty Fellow supporting community-engaged creative work.

Her recent projects include Remnants, a site-specific work reconnecting to invisible histories; The Weight of Water, exploring the body's relationship to water; The Hallowed Crown, exploring collective grief and future-building; and ongoing eco-somatic collaborations with Echolab and The Wild Register addressing climate change and environmental justice. Rose continues to perform and present her research internationally, focused on the relationship between the body and the environment.