Janice Haws Roberts
Professor of Dance
Office: 309 Dittmann Center
Phone: 507-786-3873
jroberts@stolaf.edu
B.F.A. Arizona State
M.F.A., University of Utah
- Modern dance
- Choreography
- Companydance co-artistic director
Janice Haws Roberts is a Professor of Dance at St. Olaf
College, where she is currently Chair of the Dance Department. She
received her BFA from Arizona State University and her MFA from
the University of Utah. For eight years she danced with Ririe-Woodbury
Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. During her tenure with Ririe-Woodbury,
Janice also worked as a solo artist and guest choreographer with
several universities and companies. In fact, Janice was a Minnesota
Dance Alliance Visiting Artist in 1989 and again in 1990, teaching
master classes at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, Mankato
State University, Mankato, MN and the Hennepin Center for the Arts,
Minneapolis. In January of 1995, she and her husband were Sage Cowles
Land Grant Artists in Dance at the University of Minnesota. Throughout
Janice's professional career, she had the opportunity to perform
the works of a multitude of prominent choreographers, including
Kei Takei, Alwin Nikolais, Pilobolus, Murray Louis, Joanie Smith
and Danny Shapiro, Bill Evans, Jamey Hampton, Tandy Beal, Douglas
Nielsen, Jerry Pearson, Alyson Chase, Phyllis Lamhut, Claudia Melrose,
Val Caniparoli, Shirley Ririe, Joan Woodbury and Donna White.
In 2000-2001 Janice Roberts danced and toured with A. Ludwig Dance Theatre. In 2005-06 Janice performed and toured nationally with the evening length work, Swing a Club, a dance work performed and choreographed by her husband Anthony Roberts. Most recently Janice traveled to California to learn a new dance solo from dance Artist Keith Johnson.
