Rosemarie A. Roberts

Rosemarie A. Roberts is a dance studies scholar, dancer and educator. Her artistic and scholarly work blend history, dance and theater in order to conduct social psychological and anthropological investigations of Afro-diasporic dance as embodiments of difference, knowledge and resistive power. Professor Roberts has taught workshops for people of all ages, directed programs and performed to diverse audiences at a variety of venues in the Caribbean and the United States including Yale University, Mount Holyoke College and Howard University.  Professor Roberts has also published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and co-authored a book/DVD project on conceptions of social justice in education and dance, Katherine Dunham’s Research to Performance Methodology. Professor Roberts is presently writing a book-length manuscript about the relationship among racialized bodies, knowledge and power discontents.

MEDIA

• Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power By Rosemarie Roberts. 182 pp. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2021
• Thinking thru Hip-Hop Dance: Imani Kai Johnson, grace shinae jun, Rosemarie Roberts, PMBiP, 19/06/23.