Tipperary Dance is please to announce Kelly Keesing as the recipient of the Tipperary Dance Residency in partnership with The Source Arts Centre. This residency will take place 5 – 9 August in The Source Arts Centre.

‘I’m excited to be in residence at The Source Arts Centre through Tipperary Dance and Arts Council Ireland, where I’ll be developing a new choreographic work that explores the gaps, tensions, and traces involved in trying to reach one another. Through movement and vocal soundscape, I’m investigating the poetics of communication—what is revealed, what resists articulation, and how presence can be felt beyond words. This residency offers a space to test compositional ideas, reflect, and begin shaping the emotional and structural landscape of the work.‘ – Kelly Keesing

ABOUT KELLY

Kelly Keesing is an Australian/Irish dance artist. Born in Perth, Australia in 1999, she began dancing through calisthenics and gymnastics at the age of six, discovering early the joy of collective expression. At twelve, she was offered a place at John Curtin College of the Arts, specialising in their gifted and talented dance and music programmes, before moving to Sydney a few years later to take up a place in the full-time programme at the prestigious Tanya Pearson Academy, under the direction of Lucinda Dunn. Shortly after, she relocated to Germany to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Dance at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, under the direction of Jason Beechey.

Throughout her professional career, she has toured internationally and worked with a wide range of interdisciplinary artists and choreographers while dancing with companies such as Ballet National de Marseille (LA)Horde, Bern Ballett, Ballett Theater Basel, and Tip Tray Theatre.

Kelly is currently involved in multiple collaborative processes and early-stage creations, alongside independent research through a series of residencies. She continues to pursue artistic growth and, across all projects, remains committed to creating spaces where difference is not only welcomed but woven into the fabric of the creative process—where dance becomes a conversation between bodies, environments, and the many ways we sense the world.