Jeanne Robinson
Canadian choreographer (1948–2010)
Spider Robinson
(m. 1975)Jeanne Robinson (March 30, 1948 – May 30, 2010) was an American-born Canadian choreographer who co-wrote three science fiction novels, The Stardance Saga, with her husband Spider Robinson.[1][2] Stardance won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1978.[3]
Biography
Jeanne Robinson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied dance at the Boston Conservatory, and at the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and Erick Hawkins schools.[4] She performed with the Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in New York City, and served as the artistic director of the Nova Dance Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she choreographed more than thirty original works.[4] Her plans to establish the art form of free-fall dance were cut short by the loss of space shuttle Challenger and cancellation of the Teacher in Space Project in 1986, although footage of her dancing on a parabolic flight in 2007 survives.[5][6][7]
In 2006 she and her husband were invited by the First Lady to speak at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.[8]
In addition to her dance and writing careers, Robinson was an active practitioner of Sōtō Zen Buddhism.[9][10]
Robinson married fellow science-fiction writer Spider Robinson in 1975. She was diagnosed with biliary tract cancer in February 2009 and began undergoing numerous treatments. She died, age 62, on May 30, 2010.[11]
Along with her husband, she was awarded the Inkpot Award in 2001.[12]
See also
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References
- ^ "Zero-gravity dance is a go; Dancer-choreographer Jeanne Robinson will realize a decades-old dream by staging a zero-G dance with the stars on Sunday". The Gazette. Montreal. December 27, 2007. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.
- ^ Bear, Greg (May 7, 1978). "Nebula Awards give solid gains to science-fiction authors". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "1978 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. July 26, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ a b "Jeanne Robinson". Capricon 30: Celebration! Program Book. 2010. p. 6.
- ^ https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/local-news/spider-robinsons-star-shines-in-worldcons-sci-fi-universe-3081560
- ^ Ken Meaney, "Zero-gravity dance is a go," The Gazette (Montreal), 27 December 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307175500/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217
- ^ "Zero-G Test Footage for Stardance Movie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sk9dU5pvM
- ^ "National Book Festival, hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, September 30, 2006" https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-book-festival/history/past-festivals/documents/NBF06-Program.pdf
- ^ https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/in-the-community/not-done-with-cancer-2973916
- ^ "The Brains of a Spider #77. The Good Old Days" http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html
- ^ Kowal, Mary Robinette (May 31, 2010). "RIP: Jeanne Robinson 1948–2010". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
- ^ Inkpot Award
External links
- Official website
- Stardance official movie website (archived 13 January 2016)
- Stardance movie blog
- Team Robinson
- Jeanne Robinson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Stephen Kimber, "A Space Age Marriage: Partners in matrimony, fiction and dance, the Robinsons see themselves as a First Couple of the Future." The Windsor Star, 20 December 1980 https://books.google.ca/books?id=flc_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA86&dq=%22Jeanne+Robinson%22&article_id=2922,1777259&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz0IeOrJaHAxVDhY4IHa8bCd04ChDoAXoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Jeanne%20Robinson%22&f=false
- Alan Brown, "Dance, Transcendence, and the Unknown: Spider and Jeanne Robinson’s Stardance," ReactorMag, 11 May 2022 https://reactormag.com/dance-transcendence-and-the-unknown-spider-and-jeanne-robinsons-stardance/
- Brittany Duggan, "Jeanne Robinson, 1948-2010," The Dance Current, 15 June 2010 https://thedancecurrent.com/news/jeanne-robinson-1948-2010/
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