worthwhile people (Work in Progress, 2025-2026)
worthwhile people is an evening-length dance work by Dani Robbins and Timna Jahoda Kligler that explores grief, possibility, and friendship through a series of improvisational scores and choreographed vignettes.
some ideas about angels (Work in Progress, 2025-2026)
some ideas about angels is a collaboration that I share with musician Rebecca Lasaponaro. This movement and sound-based work, structured as a physical soundscore, explores the complex role of sound in the internal and external worlds of the dancer’s body. The resulting multimedia collaboration uses the container of “angels” to inquire about queerness, grief, violence, beauty, and mystery.
PLAYFIGHT: UNPROFESSIONAL WRESTLING THEATER
February 17th, 2024 | Mayo Street Arts, Portland, ME Accessibility info and tickets here
July 13th and 14th, 2023 | The Foundry, Cambridge, MA Accessibility Info and Tickets Here
June 26-July 2nd, 2023 | RVK Fringe Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland https://rvkfringe.is/
PLAYFIGHT, a new dance-theater work by Dani Robbins, explores the world of professional wrestling through two characters in constant relational flux. As the duo assumes a collection of increasingly unreliable personas, they dissolve into a chaotic pool of text and movement, allowing moments of collaboration and surprising tenderness to surface.
Performance, direction, and design: Dani Robbins in collaboration with Sophia Eliana
Maine MiniFest (January 12-14, 2024)
Maine MiniFest is a biannual gathering of Maine dance artists that strives to enrich Maine’s dance community, foster collaboration and connection, and work against scarcity-based cultures in art communities. This weekend-long event brings together Maine’s diverse dance-making community—from college students to established artists—to connect over workshops, panels, and nourishing meals, dreaming into the future of what dance can be in our state.
sites of grace/rooms of grief/floors for dancing (Work in progress 2022-2024)
Public outdoor performances planned for spring/summer 2023
How can we hold our grief for a changing planet in the same way that we might recognize the death of a loved one? This work for six performers uses voice, movement, and natural objects to construct small rituals for recognizing a passage between worlds. Traveling the length of a beach, this piece responds directly to the transition between land and sea as the New England coast is transformed by climate change.