A life-long fan of trying to ask questions that lead to better questions, Iām always on the search for untamed joy, connection and cheap laughs. Valuing idiosyncratic motion over form and humor over rigidity. Using set movement as well as sections of structured improvisation, my works move within a tension of order, underdetermination, and surprise. Working with collaborative processes to create dances that are unapologetically human, motional, comical, and visceral. Her work strives to form cathartic communities on stage and in performance that examine personal, ancestral, and social histories with absurdity, wit, and the right amount of anger.
Anne Marie Robson Smock is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer and dance educator.
She received her MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts while simultaneously earning her MA in Dance Education from NYU Steinhardt. Originally from Salt Lake City, she holds a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah.
Anne Marie has taught, choreographed, and performed professionally in Salt Lake City and New York. Passionate about dance education, she has taught in public schools, as part of community outreach programs, and in-studio settings. As a graduate student, she developed a year-long dance curriculum for elementary students, which aims to empower children through creative dance and literacy to prepare them to participate as democratic citizens and members of their communities. Anne Marie is currently adjunct faculty at NYU and is a member of the current 92Y Harkness Dance Center Alternate Route Dance/Movement Therapy Program cohort and is looking forward to expanding her skill set as a dance practitioner.