Anthony Roberts

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About Anthony Roberts

Anthony Roberts is Artist in Residence in Dance at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he has been teaching since 1995. His coursework includes modern dance technique, dance anatomy/kinesiology, conditioning (Pilates mat), and dance film. Anthony is co-artistic director and choreographer for Companydance, St. Olaf’s modern dance company. In 2015, Anthony completed the BASI Pilates™ Comprehensive Teacher Training Course with Dance Specialization under the mentorship of Karen Clippinger at California State University in Long Beach. In 2017, Anthony teamed with two student researchers in a Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI) project, Scanning the Active Brain & Body: Revealing Connections Between the Art & Science of Movement, to record, process, and begin interpreting brain activity during the learning and execution/performance of movement tasks/sequences. As a follow-up to the 2017 CURI project, in 2019-20 Anthony served as Domain Expert (Dance), in collaboration with Domain Expert, Jeremy Loebach (Psychology) and MSCS Mentor: Matt Richey, along with CIR Student Fellows: Johanna Glaaser, Noah Hillman, and Katie Voegele for the Center for Integrative Research Collaborative Project,"How the brain dances: EEG analysis of the creation, teaching, learning and performing phases of dance." The goal of the project was to create an analysis platform for brain activity (EEG data) from 8 scalp locations. Anthony performed nationally and internationally with Repertory Dance Theatre and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, both located in Salt Lake City, Utah; Sharir Dance Company in Austin, Texas; and the Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers: The Ted Shawn Legacy (a project touring internationally to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ted Shawn’s birth). His professional performance repertoire includes works by historic and contemporary dance artists including: Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Helen Tamiris, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limón, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, Bill Evans, David Parsons, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Yacov Sharir, Garth Fagan, Douglas Nielsen, Shapiro and Smith, Ann Ludwig and others. Anthony earned a BFA in Ballet Performance from the University of Utah and holds an MFA in Dance with a Dance Technology Emphasis from Arizona State University, Tempe.