Robert Moses, Choreographer/Artistic Director,
Robert Moses’ Kin
Dancer/choreographer/artistic director Robert Moses founded the company Robert Moses’ Kin in 1995, for which he has since choreographed more than forty works. The company has toured to various national venues, including the highly acclaimed Colorado Dance Festival.
Robert and his company have been honored with many prestigious grants, awards and fellowships, including three project awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Irvine Dancemakers grant, the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award and three Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Robert’s work has been commissioned and performed internationally by such companies as Philadanco, Cincinnati Ballet, Transitions Dance Company of the Laban Center in London, African Cultural Exchange and Bare Bones Dance Company in Birmingham, England, and Oakland Ballet, among others. His work has been performed nationally and internationally, including England, Italy and Ireland.
He was recently appointed Artist-in-Residence and Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, where he has been a lecturer and curator of dance programming since 1995. A highly regarded master teacher, he has taught on campuses and at festivals throughout the United States, including Bates Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Texas, University of Nevada, and others. Moses has been invited to give workshops internationally, most recently for artists of African descent with State of Emergency Limited in the United Kingdom.
Robert has held residencies at ODC Theater and in the San Francisco public schools as part of the San Francisco Arts in Education Foundation Artist-in-Residence Program, and was a Duke/Wattis Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has performed with his company at many nationally esteemed venues such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, and the Bates Dance Festival.
He has choreographed for film, theater and opera, including most recently the San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of The Force of Destiny. Additional credits include major productions for the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, New Conservatory Theater, Los Angeles Prime Moves Festival (L.A.C.E.), Olympic Arts Festival, and Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century. Moses has collaborated with many notable artists, such as Julia Adam, Margaret Jenkins, Alonzo King, Sara Shelton Mann, SoVoSo, Marcus Shelby, Keith Terry, Frank Boehm, Will Power, Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble, David Worm, and Youth Speaks.
Prior to establishing his own company, Robert was a highly regarded performer with such companies as Twyla Tharp Dance, ODC/Dance, Long Beach Ballet, Walt Disney World Productions, and Gloria Newman Dance Theater, among others.