Robert Moses

Robert Moses, born in 1963, practices and teaches dance and choreography through RMK Dance Company as well as at Mills College as a professor. He incorporates athletic techniques, rhythmic complexity, and gestural details into his dances. Taking influence from ballet, jazz, hip hop, and gospel, he uses dance to convey and explore social identities such as race, class, and gender. He also makes films and music. Sometimes he uses his own music in the performances that he has choreographed. 
 

Moses is primarily based in San Francisco, where he teaches classes and presents performances. In 2019, he joined the Mills community as a visiting professor in dance. He worked at Stanford in 2005 as both Choreographer-in-Residence and Artistic Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts. RMK Dance Company has received funding from many groups, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, to name a few. Moses has traveled to many college campuses to teach, including Goucher College, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the University of Texas, and the University of Nevada. He has also been at festivals, including the Bates Dance Festival and the Colorado Dance Festival. Moses has been active in the dance world for quite some time and has been a part of many dance groups, including Twyla Tharp Dance, ODC/San Francisco, Long Beach Ballet, Walt Disney World Productions, and Gloria Newman Dance Theater, to name a few. In 1995, Moses started the Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company. Moses’ works include Word of Mouth (2002) and Biography of Baldwin (2003). 

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