Robin M. Gee is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She serves on the faculty at the

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as a professor of dance in the

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Biography

Gee earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance choreography and performance from

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. She danced with New York-based companies Les Ballet Bagata and Maimouna Keita Dance Company. Gee serves as the director of the Greensboro Film Festival. She is also the artistic director of the

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company Sugarfoote Productions, which she founded in 2006. She was the artistic director and choreographer of Cinque Folkloric Dance Company in New York for fifteen years. Gee serves as an associate professor of dance at the

, teaching African dance, Caribbean dance, and contemporary dance at the

. She was the founding faculty advisor for

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. In 2011 she performed ''Ramblin' Blues'', a solo choreographed by Duane Cyrus and set to music of

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, at the North Carolina Dance Festival in Boone, Wilmington, and

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. In 2013 Gee spent six months in

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, studying dance and music as a

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. In 2018 Gee directed the dance film ''Wanting''. In 2019 she was featured in the dance documentary ''Transmission''. Gee is the recipient of the West African Research Association's Post Doctoral Fellowship in African Research and the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub Grant, which she was awarded in 2005 for her work on dance documentation in

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. She was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the

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for her work on ''The Mande Legacy'', a multimedia dance documentation.

References

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