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Anthony Roberts unofficially came to St. Olaf College in 1994. While teaching at Gustavus Adolophus College in St. Peter, MN that same year, he also spent his weekends guiding a ragtag, but enthusiastic, group of St. Olaf men through the fundamentals of beginning modern dance (for many of them, this was simply experiencing how to walk on the beat of the music). This process led to his first piece of choreography at St. Olaf, Jock-ularity, which was also performed by this same group of guys (and Anthony) at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1995. Anthony was hired at St. Olaf the following year to teach the intermediate and advanced ballet classes. He currently teaches modern dance technique, the senior capstone course, and a course he designed that integrates human movement, dance for the camera and character animation of the human form. Anthony also choreographs annually as co-artistic director of St. Olaf’s modern dance company, Companydance. Anthony has performed nationally and internationally with Repertory Dance Theatre and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, both located in Salt Lake City, Utah; Sharir Dance Company in Austin, Texas; and the Jacob's Pillow's Men Dancers (a project touring internationally to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ted Shawn's birth). His professional performance repertoire includes works by historic and contemporary dance artists including: Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Helen Tamiris, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limón, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, Bill Evans, David Parsons, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, Yacov Sharir, Garth Fagan, Douglas Nielsen, Shapiro and Smith and others. He is extremely proud of playing one of the mice in Colorado BalletÕs Nutcracker, where he darn near gnawed the nutcrackerÕs cheesy foot in two. Anthony earned a BFA in Ballet Performance from the University of Utah and an MFA in Dance with a Dance Technology Emphasis from Arizona State University, Tempe.
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