Hover over image for controls. All images Copyright © June Gersten Roberts June Gersten Roberts’ approach to visual art and film making is inspired by over twenty years experience as a dance maker. As a choreographer, she has worked with professional performers, student dancers, community groups and as artistic director with Eating Peaches Dance Theatre; Avis and Company and Figure Ground, touring dance theatre and collaborative dance performances in the UK, USA and Scandinavia. Her live performances are noted for understated humour, explorations of broken narratives and multiple choreographic voices. Since 2005, June’s focus has shifted from choreographing live performances to making films and visual art, finding sensuous and lyrical relationships between places, objects and imagination. Themes of bridal fears, fantasies and fairy tales weave through a series of dance films, installations and drawings, including the on- going Best Day project with artist Mary Stark, As Is The Mother a dance film made with artist Jenny McCabe and film and photographic projects with dancers Gerry Turvey and Rachel Thomas including Chiaroscuro Studies and Dwelling Within June’s interest in film making emerged from a desire to make solitary dances in isolated locations, using the camera to transform private contemplations into public screenings. Her first films, Chasing Angels and Elusive Bodies, were made in the Yorkshire landscape. Since then she as expanded into directing digital shorts, including The Projectionist and Lily, which have screened at prestigious national and international film festivals. She has worked on several film making projects with young people, including the poetic documentary Letter To Mr. X and is currently researching child led approaches with dance artists Small Things, at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. June is a senior lecturer in Dance at Edge Hill University, where she teaches dance theory and practice. Having grown up in up in New York, trained at Middlesex University and at University of Surrey ; June now lives in the Yorkshire Dales, with her husband, the visual artist Tony Roberts and their sons. She loves country walks, city wanders and shopping, especially for shoes, well, who doesn’t?
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