Artist Biography
Phoebe Robinson
2022
Phoebe Robinson has an established practice as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and filmmaker. A graduate of the WA Academy of Performing Arts, and post-graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Phoebe has performed in works by Sandra Parker, Rosalind Crisp, Lucy Guerin, Judith Walton, Joanna Pollitt, Frances D’Ath, Neil Adams and Kota Yamazaki. As the inaugural Housemate Resident at Dancehouse in 2008, her solo work Only Leone was nominated for an Australian Dance Award. In 2014 she was commissioned to perform a self-devised solo in Melbourne Now, ‘February Solo Series’ curated by Antony Hamilton, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Phoebe completed her PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2022. Phoebe has published essays on dance, including ‘45 Degrees’ (2018), co-written with Judith Walton for Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity, edited by Penny Sparke et al, and ‘Learn to Unlearn’ (2018) for Runway Experimental Art Magazine Issue #36 DANCE, edited by Lizzie Thomson.
Phoebe is an experienced teacher and assessor of undergraduate and post-graduate levels at Deakin University and the Victorian College of the Arts.