“Kept twisting and turning my attention”
“An intelligent piece of work”
“Intense and intimate”
“Clarity and honesty” “Powerful”

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:

June’s videos and performances are noted for their poignancy, dark humour and sensuous intimacy.

For over twenty years, June has been directing and choreographing live dance theatre performances, working with professional, community and student dancers, collaborating with actors, musicians and writers and producing touring productions as Artistic Director of Eating Peaches Dance Theatre, Avis and Company and Figure Ground, a company specializing in music and dance collaboration. Her productions have toured in the UK, Scandinavia and USA and she has taught dance in the community and in further and higher education, including as Head of Dance at the University of York St John.

For the last three years June has shifted from choreographing live performances to directing videos, making short, highly personal dance videos, directing narrative video shorts, creating video backdrops for dance performance, making music promos and video documentations of arts, music and dance events, workshops and performances June’s shift from making live performances to making videos was first signalled by desire to create intimate, solitary performances where the sense of isolation would not be invaded by an audience. She quickly discovered that choreographing for the camera provided fertile ground for her love of textural detail and that editing technology gave new scope for experimenting with composition and construction. Her dance videos have been screened at art and dance events and at Dance Film festivals including VideoDance 2007 in Athens and Thessalonika.

June is also directing digital shorts including the sexy comedy Wig Wam Bam and the lyrical and poignant The Projectionist which is commissioned by UK Film Council and Screen Yorkshire and produced by Michelle Eastwood, written by Richard Shaw. The Projectionist is premiering in Cannes 2007

June is currently a collaborative partner with Yonder Films, a video company making music promos and producing community film projects and documentaries. She is in script development with writer Spanner Spencer on The Ordeal of Mark, A Badly Lit Comedy of 10(ish) Minutes, and is researching Dwelling Within, a new dance video with dancer and co- choreographer Gerry Turvey

June grew up in New York and moved to England when she married the painter Tony Roberts; she trained as a dancer and choreographer in London and now lives in the Yorkshire Dales. She has two grown up sons and loves reading, films, friends, family, food, country walks, city wanders and clothes, especially shoes, well who doesn’t?