“I feel Roberta offers something very special and original.”
““Then there was an “absolutely unreal” dance performance created by Jean: Brocade, a piece about craft and physical work, with “strange, minimal, repetitive, scratchy kind of movements. ”
Roberta is a critically acclaimed choreographer making both film and live performance. She works collaboratively with artists and makers from across disciplines to produce dances for a diverse range of contexts. Her choreography is centred around interdisciplinary poetics, is led by inquiry and is heavily informed by cultural changes and anthropological research.
She has recently been awarded a Jerwood Choreographic Research Bursary, she is a 2020 winner of the Bonnie Bird Choreographic Development Award, a 2019 finalist at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Screen.dance and New Renaissance Film Festival. She is a 2018 finalist for the Total Theatre & The Place Dance Award. Roberta has been artist in residence at Critical Path Laboratory in Sydney, Australia, Dance Limerick in Ireland, Dance City in Newcastle, Dance Base in Edinburgh, Fabric Dance and Dartington in Devon. She has presented her work as part of the Made In Scotland Showcase, at Sadler’s Wells, Tanzmesse, Dance Umbrella, Nottdance, Greenwich Dance Agency and Tramway Glasgow amongst others.
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