Five College Dance Department : Robin Prichard

Robin Prichard

Robin Prichard is a dancer, teacher and choreographer joining Smith College as Visiting Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor. While dancing in New York and Los Angeles she worked with renowned choreographers Victoria Marks, David Rousseve, Donna Uchizono, and Doug Varone. She has recently returned from Australia where she completed several cross-cultural choreography projects between Aboriginal and modern dance, performed for Opera Australia, and taught at Sydney Dance Company. Robin’s choreography, “noted for its wit and vulnerability” (LA Times), is most often both interdisciplinary and autobiographical. It has been seen throughout the U.S. in venues such as Joyce/Soho, Dance Space, Highways, California Choreographer’s Festival, and Dance Kaleidoscope as well as venues large and small in Australia. She served as choreographer and performer (via motion capture) for the interactive CD ROM “American Idol.” Her most recent commission entailed creating a “postmodern creation myth” for Parrammatta Riverside Theaters that commented on the placing of indigenous peoples as consumable commodities and cultural oddities in a global world rife with collective guilt.

Robin holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase and a MFA from UCLA. She has taught at Arizona State University, University of Western Sydney (Australia), NAISDA (Australia’s National School of Dance for Aboriginals and Islanders), UCLA, and Mesa State College. She has received the Harkness Award, the Glorya Kaufmann Award for Artistic Excellence, a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography, and an Australian Federation of University of Women Fellowship. Her choreographic / research interests include cross-cultural choreography between indigenous and concert dance, the relationship between language and movement in performance, and the potential of dance to negotiate binary oppositions.

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photo by Larry Loher	Robin Prichard Robin Prichard is a dancer, teacher and choreographer joining Smith College as Visiting Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor. While dancing in New York and Los Angeles she worked with renowned choreographers Victoria Marks, David Rousseve, Donna Uchizono, and Doug Varone. She has recently returned from Australia where she completed several cross-cultural choreography projects between Aboriginal and modern dance, performed for Opera Australia, and taught at Sydney Dance Company. Robin’s choreography, “noted for its wit and vulnerability” (LA Times), is most often both interdisciplinary and autobiographical. It has been seen throughout the U.S. in venues such as Joyce/Soho, Dance Space, Highways, California Choreographer’s Festival, and Dance Kaleidoscope as well as venues large and small in Australia. She served as choreographer and performer (via motion capture) for the interactive CD ROM “American Idol.” Her most recent commission entailed creating a “postmodern creation myth” for Parrammatta Riverside Theaters that commented on the placing of indigenous peoples as consumable commodities and cultural oddities in a global world rife with collective guilt. Robin holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase and a MFA from UCLA. She has taught at Arizona State University, University of Western Sydney (Australia), NAISDA (Australia’s National School of Dance for Aboriginals and Islanders), UCLA, and Mesa State College. She has received the Harkness Award, the Glorya Kaufmann Award for Artistic Excellence, a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography, and an Australian Federation of University of Women Fellowship. Her choreographic / research interests include cross-cultural choreography between indigenous and concert dance, the relationship between language and movement in performance, and the potential of dance to negotiate binary oppositions.