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Christina Robson is a performer, educator, and choreographer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her extensive performance career includes long term collaborations with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance and Sean Curran Company where she performed historic repertory and premiered several original evening length works at The Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, Jacobs Pillow, and The Joyce Theater. She has toured two seasons with DanceMotion USA, a cross cultural exchange partnership between Brooklyn Academy of Music and The US Department of State. Robson’s work with Monica Bill Barnes & Company includes collaborations with American Public Radio personality Ira Glass in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host as well as This American Life Live! at NYU’s Skirball Center. Robson was a performer in the Bessie Award-winning immersive theater show Then She Fell by Third Rail Productions and has decade-long collaborative tenures with choreographers Heidi Henderson and Kendra Portier. Rachel Rizzuto, associate editor of Dance Magazine, described Robson as, “The modern dancer to watch of this next generation. Her ability to mold herself to any number of choreographers’ styles with ease and detail is truly exceptional.”

Christina has been on rotating faculty at Gibney Dance and Peridance Capezio Center, and instructed pre-professional training programs at The Joffrey Ballet, DanceWave, and 92^nd Street Y. In 2018, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company partnered with The Mellon Foundation through Arts Transcending Borders, where Robson facilitated NCAA Division 1 athletes at The College of the Holy Cross in a choreographic residency highlighting the physical negotiation of partnering with the mutual effort of team sports. Robson’s choreographic work has been presented by a range of institutions such as NYU Tisch, Barnard College, SUNY Purchase, Hartt School, The Wooden Floor, Providence Water Fire Festival, Bethany Arts, and Boston University.

Degrees:

• MFA Dance, University of Maryland
• BA Dance, Roger Williams University