Jenny Roche (PhD) is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA in Contemporary Dance Performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. From 2013 to 2017 she was Senior Lecturer in Dance at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. She has worked extensively as a dancer, including with choreographers Rosemary Butcher, Jodi Melnick, John Jasperse, Michael-Keegan Dolan and with her sister, Liz Roche with whom she co-founded Rex Levitates Dance Company (now Liz Roche Company). Jenny has published widely on the creative practice of dancers, dance and Somatics and arts practice research. Her book Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer: Moving Identities was published in 2015 and Choreography: The Basics, with Stephanie Burridge in 2022. From 2007 to 2011 she was dance advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland. She continues to work as a collaborator and performer in various creative arts research contexts, including Expanded Fields (2019) with London based artists Gibson/Martelli and Alternately Terrific and Gentle (2023) with Liz Roche and Jodi Melnick. She is a practitioner of Amatsu soft tissue therapy. Most recently, she has been exploring Micro-phenomenology as a method for articulating embodied dancing knowledge.