Biography
I'm interested in dances that reach into this world and live in the same way that characters in a novel live.
Born: 1963
Founding Artistic Director, Robert Moses has created over one hundred works of varying styles and genres for his company, Robert Moses’ Kin, and has composed many of the sound and narrative scores for his works. Moses has choreographed for dance, opera, and theater companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, San Francisco Opera, Olympic Arts Festival, Ailey II, Philadanco, Cincinnati Ballet, Eco Arts, Transitions Dance Company of the Laban Center in London, African Cultural Exchange (UK), and Oakland Ballet, among others. He has taught on college campuses throughout the U.S., including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Cal State Long Beach, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Goucher College, University of Texas, Stockton University, University of Nevada, and the University of South Florida.
Moses earned his Associate of Arts, degree in Dance from Orange Coast College in 1982 and in
1999, he completed his Bachelor of Arts at California State university, Long Beach. In 2005, Moses was named Stanford University Choreographer-in-Residence and the Artistic Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University, where he remained until 2016. He was a Professor of Practice at Santa Clara University from 2018-2019, the Melody and Mark Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Dance and Theater Studies at Mills College in Oakland, CA, from 2019-2022, and is currently a Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco.
Featuring a bass-heavy, urban jazzy score co-written by Robert Moses and David Worm, Speaking Ill of the Dead takes on the subject of war and the inevitability of loss through embodied musicality and pin-point choreographic specificity.
Robert Moses' Works:
Speaking Ill of the Dead
Premiere: 2006