Dr. Rosa is currently involved into two interrelated research-creation projects. The first, titled Movements of Sustainability, interweaves a wider range of creative bodily practices with the concept of sustainability, understood here as a series of ecological relations, namely the care of self (individual ecology); the care of others (social ecology); the care of environments (territorial ecology); and the care of ideas (ecology of knowledges and ways of knowing).  The second, titled CosmoAngola: Confluence of Bakongo Cosmology and Capoeira Angola, is a collaboration with capoeira master-teacher Cobra Mansa, Dr. Cinézio Peçanha, and the maroon community and activist mestre Nego Bispo.

Dr. Rosa’s creative work has circulated internationally and her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and monographs. Her forthcoming book, Capoeira Angola: Understanding an Afro-Brazilian Art Form, is under contract with Bloomsbury press and will be published in 2023. Written in accessible language and supported by audio-visual resources, housed in a companion website and accessible via QR codes, this edited volume combines the primary author’s scholarship with contributing chapters by capoeira scholars and master-teachers (mestres) on specific topics. In sum, it offers a critical introduction of Capoeira Angola to performing arts students with little to no experience with the practice and/or its history and culture.

In her previous monograph, Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification (Palgrave McMillan, 2015), Rosa examines how aesthetic principles cultivated across the black Atlantic contributed to the construction of Brazil as an imagined community. Dr Rosa has written the foreword for Christine Greiner's translated book, The Body in Crisis (2021)and has also been published in the edited books Neoliberalism and contemporary dance in Brazil (2021), The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (2020), Moving (Across) Borders (2017), Performing Brazil (2015) and Cultures in Process: Encounter and Experience (2009), and peer reviewed journals such as Atlantic Studies, TDR and e-misférica. Her lectures are featured in digital plataforms such as Digital Theatre.