artist in residence: Valerie Oliveiro

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Rosy Simas Danse (RSD) is excited to welcome Valerie Oliveiro for their first three thirty one space residency April 17th-30th.

Valerie Oliveiro is a dance and performance maker based in the Twin Cities and from Singapore. While they currently engage movement as their primary motor for expression, they also engage in other expressions, such as design, writing, drawing, and photography, as generative, complexly relational proposals. Their choreographic work has been presented at Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Hair+Nails Gallery, and Bryant Lake Bowl and Cowles Center and has been supported by Minnesota State Arts Board, MRAC, Jerome Foundation, and MAP Fund. Currently, they are a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye Theater, ensemble member at Lighting Rod (QTBIPOC-led performance organism), and co-run a small performance incubator MOVO SPACE. They have performed in the work of Morgan Thorson, Rosy Simas, Pramila Vasudevan, Jennifer Monson, Chitra Vairavan, and Emily Gastineau.

Oliveiro is also an RSD Performer in Weave, WEave:HERE, and she who lives on the road to war.

The three thirty one space artist in residence program supports Native, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists locally and nationally.