Author

Joanna Rotkin is a dance maker, movement educator, and writer. Her dance work has been presented at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Norway; Greywood Arts in Ireland; the Network for Scandinavian Dancers in Stockholm, Sweden; the Denver Art Museum and the Americans for the Arts Annual Conference in Colorado; Performática in Mexico; the RAD Dance Festival in Michigan; the Roque Festival in Fresno, California; and other venues locally and nationally. The dance film she created with her students in 2019, The Sky Inside, was selected to be screened at the Boden International Film Festival in Sweden and at the Frozen River Festival in Minnesota and has received awards from the Medusa Film Festival and the Experimental Forum. She’s taught dance at the University of Colorado, Naropa University, Bennington College, and Prescott College and has an MFA in dance from Bennington College. 

Joanna’s work collaboratively creating live, public dance performances with people who are incarcerated is funded by the Kissinger Family Foundation, the American Endowment Foundation, and the Hacienda of LUV Giving Fund as well as by private donors who support her work in the Colorado State Prison system. She is currently working on her first book, This House is a Body: A Memoir of Dancing and Dying.