Alum Anne Marie Robson Smock announced as 2025 NYU Artist Development Program for Dance Fellow

School of Dance alumna Anne Marie Robson Smock (Modern Dance BFA ‘09) was announced as one of the seven fellows for the 2025 New York University (NYU) Artist Development Program for Dance.

The program runs from May-Sep 2025 and is an intensive, cohort-based incubator designed to support NYU alumni in the field of dance in moving to the next stage of their careers. 

Robson Smock is Adjunct Faculty in NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions (MPAP), which “offers a supportive environment in which to explore interdisciplinary endeavors in Performance and Composition, Music Business and Arts Administration, Music Technology, Creative Arts Therapies, and Arts in Education.” She has degrees from Tisch (MFA ‘20) and Steinhardt (MA ‘20).

Anne Marie Robson Smock is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, dance educator, and Pilates instructor. Originally from Salt Lake City, she earned a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. Smock teaches at NYU Steinhardt, the Steps Academy and throughout the city. A life-long fan of trying to ask questions that lead to better questions, she’s always on the search for untamed joy, connection and cheap laughs. Smock values idiosyncratic motion over form and humor over rigidity. Using set movement as well as sections of structured improvisation, her works move within a tension of order, underdetermination, and surprise. She works with collaborative processes to create dances that are unapologetically human, motional, comical, and visceral. Her work strives to form cathartic communities on stage and in performance that examine personal, ancestral, and social histories with absurdity, wit, and the right amount of anger.