About Robin

Robin Conrad is a Los Angeles-based concert and commercial choreographer, teaching artist, dance scholar, and somatics practitioner. Robin holds PhD in Dance Studies from Texas Woman’s University and an MFA in Dance from CalArts. For the coming 2023-2024 academic year, Robin will be a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University. In 2020, Robin completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Movement, Culture, and Society (MoCS) research unit at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). For eight years, Robin was an Associate Professor of Dance at Fullerton College and she has lectured at California Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo, Occidental College in Los Angeles, CalArts, L.A. Valley College, and the University of California, Irvine. Robin is certified to teach Pilates, Gyrokinesis Level One Foundations and yoga. She has completed the coursework for a Dance/Movement Therapy certification. Robin is also an avid Argentine tango dancer. 

Robin has extensive experience as a commercial choreographer. From working in television on shows such as Madam Secretary and Suburgatory, to her work with Sofia Coppola, Robin has been mentioned in international publications such as Interview magazine, British Vogue, and on the DanceOn channel's weekly biography of influential contemporary choreographers. Robin choreographed a White Stripes video for which she taught supermodel Kate Moss to dance. For this project, Robin was noted as a member of Sofia Coppola’s “smart mob” in The New York Times Magazine. She has also choreographed commercials and music videos for American and British television, including a video for the rock group Scissor Sisters. Robin worked closely with world-renowned photographer Philip Lorca diCorcia on Lucky 13, a series of dance images that were critically acclaimed and appeared in galleries worldwide. This collection was cited in the New Yorker as “one of the most argued over shows of the season.”

Robin also produces and choreographs her own work for the stage. Last year, she participated in the Director’s Lab West, a competitive workshop for stage directors and choreographers that originated at Lincoln Center. In 2017, Robin premiered a work in the Home Grown Festival at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Robin has been recognized for her concert choreography, receiving Durfee grants to support her creative pursuits and Horton award nominations for her productions. As a notable alumni from her undergraduate studies at The University of California, Irvine, last year she was invited to mentor a group of traveling college students on the PBS docu-series Roadtrip Nation. She has presented work and given lectures at festivals and conferences worldwide, most recently at the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities conference at the University of Warsaw.