Robbie Cook (he/him/his) has been professionally active in the dance field for 30 years in the dance communities of New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Based in Brooklyn, he is currently an Associate Professor of Dance at Hofstra University and has taught during the summer at the American Dance Festival since 2012. Other teaching credits include Douta Seck (Dakar, Senegal), Hong Kong International School, Bates Dance Festival, Shenandoah Conservatory, Loyola Marymount University, Idyllwild Arts Academy, i-Dance Festival (Hong Kong), Chadwick International School (South Korea), Japan Contemporary Dance Network (Sapporo) as a company member of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Universidad de Las Américas (Mexico), IUGTE Conference (Austria), and numerous master classes at universities and high schools all over the US. As a performer, Robbie has worked with a diverse array of choreographers: Momar Ndiaye, Seán Curran, James Gregg, Guanglei Hui, Teena Marie Custer, Michel Kouakou, Rosie Herrera, Laurel Jenkins, Edwaard Liang, Keith Thompson, Douglas Dunn, Stacy Spence, Margaret Jenkins, Liz Gerring, Deborah Hay, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Jan Erkert, among many others. Robbie earned an MFA in Dance from Bennington College and a BFA in Visual Art from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
