Jeanne Robinson (March 30, 1948 – May 30, 2010) was an American-born Canadian
choreographer
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who co-wrote three
science fiction
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novels, ''The Stardance Saga'', with her husband
Spider Robinson.
''Stardance'' won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1978.
Biography
Jeanne Robinson was born in
Boston
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,
. She studied dance at the
Boston Conservatory
Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, music, and theater.
Boston Conservatory was founded ...
, and at the
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She w ...
,
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT). He created AAADT and its affiliated Alvin Ailey American Dance Cente ...
, and
Erick Hawkins
Frederick "Erick" Hawkins (April 23, 1909November 23, 1994) was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.
Early life
Frederick Hawkins was born in Trinidad, Colorado, on April 23, 1909. He majored in Greek civilization at Harvard Univer ...
schools.
She performed with the Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in New York City, and served as the artistic director of the
Nova Dance Theatre in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348,634 people in its urban area. The ...
, where she choreographed more than thirty original works.
Robinson married fellow science-fiction writer
Spider Robinson in 1975. She was diagnosed with
biliary tract cancer in February 2009 and began undergoing numerous treatments. She died, age 62, on May 30, 2010.
See also
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References
External links
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Stardance official movie website (archived 13 January 2016)Stardance movie blog*
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