Romany Dear

Resident 7 to 14 November 2025

After many months of spilling the milk, dreamlike whispers, boundaryless words, and undefinable meanings; liquefactions and openings of holes reaching out to foggy skies and blurry-blue tracings of bodies and movements stretching across contoured landscapes of endlessly long papers.

Romany Dear returns to her research in the Tramway Studio, to gather what was planted during her month-long collaborative residency at Cove Park (May to June 2025). In this next phase of research and development, she will create containers, vessels, temporary lodgings, clarity pools, anchors of gravity or catch-all dishes for the mutable midsts of her practice. Using embodied methodologies developed during her residency at Cove Park, she approaches “practising pedagogies” as one of the spaces to perform one’s many selves.

Romany will work towards the creation of a resource: a living Somateca, called Horizontal Spillings: Practices for grounding, charging, and connecting.

This resource will support different moments of sharing and disseminating her work across facilitation, pedagogy and performing/s over the next 12 months, in London, Glasgow, and Amsterdam.

More about the artist 
Romany Dear, born in the North of the UK, under a gemini sun, is an interdisciplinary body-based artist. Romany's practice encompasses speculative and critical performance practice/s, somatic-erotic touching/s, movement research, facilitation, access-led organising and experimental writing/s. Interested in 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 has performed and worked internationally with: Germinal (Bolivia) The Judson Church and The Movement Research Centre (NYC), Organizmo, La Casa de Meria, La Compañía, Con Cuerpos and Mapa Teatro (Colombia), Encuentros (Brazil), Siobhan Davies Studies and The Swiss Church (London), XOXO Curatorial Projects and The Volksbuhne Theatre (Berlin).

Romany is one of the founders of Glasgow Open Dance School (2011) which has worked over many years with Arika, the CCA, The Work Room, DCA and the 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 one of the co-heads of the new temporary masters programme, Monstrous Futurities at The Sandberg Institution, in Amsterdam.