He then migrated to film and his works have won numerous awards, notably Elevator World, Modern Daydreams, and Learn to Speak Body.
He received a grant from CETA and from 1978–1980 performed extensively in New York City theaters, schools, universities, museums, hospitals, and prisons.
His MFA thesis, Helicopter, an urban drama, won seven festival awards including a CINE Golden Eagle.
[7] Rose has taught Dance-film at the California Institute of the Arts and Mills College and was a professor of Dance-filmmaking at The Ohio State University until 2021.
[8] Obstructed View (2022) Wehnu Saï (2021) Attention Span (2020) The Case Against Dance-Film: a disemPowerpoint (2020) Internal Medicine (2019) And So Say All of Us (2018) The Icons (2017) Cubed (2017) Exquisite Corps (2016) Targeted Advertising (2015) Aura Lee (2015) Globe Trot (2014) Contact (2012) A World Without Numbers (2010) Advance (2009) The Event (2006) Learn to Phone Phony: Tape 2 (2005) Metamorfishes (2004) Name Categories (2004) Prologue to the Opera Carmina Burana (2003) Yoga Misinfomercial (2003) Case Studies from the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders (2002) Learn to Speak Body: Tape 5 (2002) Modern Daydreams (2001) a suite of four films: Meredith Monk and Robert Een in the World Festival of Sacred Music (1999) Elevator World (1999) Weightless (1997) Helicopter (1994) Single White Male (1992) A Nauseous Nocturne (1993) The Wayfarer (1991)