Denise Rowe

Denise Rowe is a creative practitioner, ceremonialist, and experiential facilitator whose work explores the intersection of embodiment, rhythm, ritual and the natural world. Denise has over twenty years’ experience in creating and holding safe spaces for powerful transformation.

Denise’s passion is for the deep embodied remembering that is encoded within our beings as part of this living earth. She works with dance, rhythm, prayer and landscape as access points for this remembering.

Denise’s work has evolved from many intensive immersions into indigenous wisdom, including the hunter gatherers of the Cameroonian rainforest, the mbira tradition in rural Zimbabwe, and her own embodied movement practice in the landscapes of Devon, UK.

Denise has toured internationally as a performing artist with Baka Beyond, Sakoba, Ballet Nimba and Ombiviolum. She works collaboratively on multi-disciplinary projects, including Arts Council funded ‘Enter the Circle’ (2019), ADAD, and Horniman Museum who commissioned ‘She Who Walks’ (2012 – 2017). Her work has been shown at The Place, The South Bank Centre, London Metropolitan University, The House, Exeter Respect Festival.

Denise is lecturer in Dance at Plymouth University, director of Earth Dances and co-founder of Shumba Arts Community group. She used to sit on the board for Dance in Devon and has delivered partnership projects with Independent Dance, Schumacher College, Warwick University, Falmouth University, House of Imagination, Mac McCartney and Dance in Devon.

Denise has a first degree in Philosophy and Theology from Oxford University.