Jamar罗伯茨

跳舞 and Jazz Workshop: 罗伯茨 leads a multiday workshop for a cohort of dancers and jazz musicians to improvise and interpret together while exploring works by a range of jazz composers.

Jamar罗伯茨 is a choreographer who has made works for Alvin Ailey American 跳舞 Theater, New York City Ballet, 芭蕾舞X, the Juilliard 跳舞 Division, 利2, New York City Center’s Fall for 跳舞, and Vail 跳舞 Festival, 等. 罗伯茨, a graduate of the New World School of the Arts and the Ailey School and has danced for AAADT, 利二世, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet, won the 2016 “Bessie” award for outstanding performer and has performed as a guest artist with the Royal Ballet in London and made multiple television performance appearances. In 2020, the March on Washington Film Festival invited 罗伯茨 to create a dance on film tribute to the Honorable John Lewis. Other highlights include Works and Process at the Guggenheim, where he created the acclaimed short work on film Cooped and A Chronicle of a Pivot at a Point in Time, which premiered on film in 2021 and was restaged for a live performance world premiere in 2022. 罗伯茨 was a director’s fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in the 2020-21 season and he has also made a short film for the LA Opera entitled The First Bluebird in the Morning. He was featured on the cover of 跳舞 Magazine in June 2021, having previously been on the cover in 2013 and being named among the 25 to Watch in 2007. His first narrative ballet, 复活, premiered at San Francisco Ballet in January 2023.