Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson teaches dance improvisation and contact improvisation for actors and dancers in Higher Education and in a variety of settings in the UK and abroad. Robert has been passionately involved with contact improvisation since 1996. Influential teachers have included Kirsty Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Charlie Morrissey, Angus Balbernie and Rick Nodine. Robert has taught workshops in Austria, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Reunion, Northern Ireland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and Italy.

Robert directed London Contact Improvisation (2001 – 2021), a community-based organisation, which delivered a programme of classes, workshops and jams at Moving East and Caxton House. He was also part of the curator team for CI36 in Pennsylvania (2008) and the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange in Ormskirk, England (2009).

Alongside teaching and organising, Robert is actively involved as performer, director and collaborator in many performance projects. Robert has been a company member of Touchdown Dance since 2002. He performed in TACT (2002) and Closer (2005) which throughout the UK. He has also performed in many choreographies and improvised works by artists including Joe Moran, Kate Brown, Tino Seghal, Jovair Longo, Meghan Flannigan, Adriana Pegorer, Lalitaraja, Sarah Shorten, Magdalena Radlowska, and the improvisation collective SoFt.