Musical Theatre | Creative Team Member
Robin Gee holds an MFA in Contemporary Dance Choreography and Performance from Sarah Lawrence College and specializes in African, Caribbean, and Modern dance techniques. She is a Professor at UNC Greensboro where she teaches African and Modern dance as well as the Screen Dance curriculum. Her choreographic works have appeared in the North Carolina Dance Festival, Dumbo Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as resident works mounted on various colleges and universities around the world. She is the recipient of the West African Research Association’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Research, the Central Piedmont Artist’s Hub Grant for her work on dance and music in West Africa. Most recently she is the recipient of the American Association of University Women’s Post Doctoral Research Award (2006 – 2007) for her work on The Mande Legacy, a dance documentation project for which spent six months in Guinea in 2007 and the Fulbright Award for her Research in Burkina Faso in 2013. In 2021 Gee was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Award to travel to Cabo Verde to conduct a Curricular Assessment for inclusion in the Fulbright Scholars Program. In 2006, Ms. Gee also formed her own company Sugarfoote Productions, a multipurpose service organization designed to expose communities to the myriad expressions evident in African art and to help local audiences experience the richness of African and Diasporan cultural traditions. Sugarfoote also co-produces the Greensboro Dance Film Festival, a boutique dance film festival screening films from around the world. Ms. Gee’s own dance films have currently screened in 27 film festivals worldwide include: Dance Film Screenings: Wanting (2018) Aphrodite Film Festival; Indie Boom; Global Film Festival; Central States Indie Fest; L.I.M.P.A Festival; Adirondack Film Festival; Festival International Videodanza; Movimiento de Movimientos; CKF International Festival; PRISMA Dance Fest; Independent Shorts Awards; Frame x Frame Film Festival; Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne. NCDF Moving Movers, Screendance in the Landscape (Scotland); Studio Faire Artists Residence Program (France). Her 2 latest films are in post-production.