Marla Robertson

Highly-motivated artist and scholar with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

• Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum virtual movement workshop, https://youtu.be/2gYO0YMdbgQ, 2020
• The Nu Series - An Embodied History and Body Installation (part 5 of 6), https://youtu.be/TkiuPyAwjjw, 2019
• Fail Safe Festival - Muscle Memories Revisited (one woman show clip), https://youtu.be/nU59eXONiFw, 2018
• Kriyol Dance! Collective performance - Lavi Miyo | On Resistance, Revolution, and Lakou St. Michel (choreographed solo begins @33.46), https://youtu.be/y7ylFk-3sco, 2018
• Kusika/Zambezi concert - “N’ihu N’ạzu N’ạzu N’ihu” Igbo for “forward backwards, backward forward.” - “The Machine” (choreographed solo begins @ 1:02:26), https://vimeo.com/270686361, 2018
• Kusika/Zambezi Concert - Muscle Memory (choreographed solo begins @ 52:52), https://vimeo.com/164269516, 2016

• Kriyol Dance! Collective (Brooklyn, NY), https://www.kriyolcollective.com/
• Williams College Dance (Williamstown, MA), https://dance.williams.edu/
• Olga Dunn Dance Company (Great Barrington, MA), https://www.olgadunndance.org/
• July 2014: Jacob's Pillow Inside/OUT performance with Williams College Dance Department
• IS 183 Art School of the Berkshires, Learning Through Arts Summer Intern/Assistant
• Spring 2014: Barrington Stage Playwright Mentoring Project Peer Mentor
• Spring/Summer 2013: Westside Community Program/Barrington Stage Company, ENUF! peer mentor and choreographer
• Winter/Spring 2011: Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts - Leadership Institute for Political Impact (inaugural class)
• 2011-2018: Olga Dunn Dance Company member
• Summer 2011: Women of Color Giving Circle's "Ain't I A Woman" as dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham
• 2011-present: Lift Ev'ry Voice founding steering committee member and Youth and young adult committee chair
• 2010: Jacob's Pillow performance as an extra with Trey McIntyre ProjectSummer Summer 2009: Jacob's Pillow Inside/OUT performance with The 9 Cultural Traditions program
• Spring 2009: Women of Color Giving Circle's "Ain't I A Woman" as dancer and anthropologist, Katherine DunhamJanuary 2009-2018: Williams College Kusika Dance ensemble member
• January 2009-January 2010 - AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer/ Manager of Lichtenstein Center for the Arts for the Pittsfield Office of Cultural Development, lead grant writer for $10,000 NEA Big Read Grant celebrating Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird"

• 2020 - Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grantee
• 2013 - Berkshire Taconic Foundation – Martha Boschen Porter artist grant
• 2011 - Berkshire Taconic Foundation – Educational grant
• 2009 - Americorps Education Award
• 2004 - Graduate Assistantship, The University of Memphis
• 2003 - study abroad scholarship to Kingston, Jamaica
• 2006 - study abroad scholarship to Accra, Ghana