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| name = Jeanne Robinson
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| alt = Jeanne Robinson with husband Spider Robinson
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| caption = Robinson with husband [[Spider Robinson]] at the 2004 [[Necronomicon (convention)|Necronomicon]].
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|3|30}}
| birth_place = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, United States
| birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|5|30|1948|3|30}}
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| alma_mater = [[Boston Conservatory]]
| alma_mater = [[Boston Conservatory]]
| occupation = [[Choreographer]], dancer, teacher and writer
| occupation = [[Choreographer]], writer
| spouse = [[Spider Robinson]] (1975&ndash;2010, her death)
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'''Jeanne Robinson''' (March 30, 1948 &ndash; May 30, 2010) was an American-born Canadian [[choreographer]] who co-wrote three [[science fiction]] novels, ''The Stardance Saga'', with her husband [[Spider Robinson]].<ref name="gaz07">{{cite news|work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]] |location=Montreal |title=Zero-gravity dance is a go; Dancer-choreographer Jeanne Robinson will realize a decades-old dream by staging a zero-G dance with the stars on Sunday |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217 |date=December 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307175500/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217 |archivedate=March 7, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Lat78">{{cite news |first=Greg |last=Bear |work= [[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Nebula Awards give solid gains to science-fiction authors |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/649754342.html?dids=649754342:649754342&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+07%2C+1978&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Nebula+Awards+give+solid+gains+to+science-fiction+authors&pqatl=google |date=May 7, 1978}}</ref> ''Stardance'' won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1978.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1978-hugo-awards/ |title=1978 Hugo Awards |publisher=The Hugo Awards |access-date=19 March 2020}}</ref>
'''Jeanne M. Rubbicco Robinson''' (March 30, 1948 – May 30, 2010) was an American-born Canadian [[choreographer]] who co-wrote three [[science fiction]] novels, ''The Stardance Saga'', with her husband [[Spider Robinson]].<ref name="gaz07">{{cite news|work=[[The Gazette (Montreal)|The Gazette]] |location=Montreal |title=Zero-gravity dance is a go; Dancer-choreographer Jeanne Robinson will realize a decades-old dream by staging a zero-G dance with the stars on Sunday |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217 |date=December 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307175500/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217 |archive-date=March 7, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Lat78">{{cite news |first=Greg |last=Bear |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Nebula Awards give solid gains to science-fiction authors |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/649754342.html?dids=649754342:649754342&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+07%2C+1978&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Nebula+Awards+give+solid+gains+to+science-fiction+authors&pqatl=google |date=May 7, 1978 |access-date=July 6, 2017 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024083214/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/649754342.html?dids=649754342:649754342&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+07,+1978&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Nebula+Awards+give+solid+gains+to+science-fiction+authors&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Stardance'' won the Hugo Award and Nebula award for Best Novella in 1978 and 1977 respectively.<ref name="Hugo">{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1978-hugo-awards/ |title=1978 Hugo Awards |date=July 26, 2007 |publisher=The Hugo Awards |access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref><ref name="a666">{{cite web | last=McIntyre | first=Vonda N. | title=Stardance | website=The Nebula Awards® | date=2016-04-18 | url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominated-work/stardance/ | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref>


==Biography==
== Biography ==
Jeanne Robinson was born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. She studied dance at the [[Boston Conservatory]], and at the [[Martha Graham]], [[Alvin Ailey]], and [[Erick Hawkins]] schools.<ref name="cap30">{{Cite news | title = Jeanne Robinson | work = Capricon 30: Celebration! Program Book | pages = 6 | year = 2010 }}</ref> She performed with the Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and served as the artistic director of the [[Nova Dance Theatre]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], where she choreographed more than thirty original works.<ref name="cap30" />
Jeanne Robinson was born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] to Dorothy and Peter Rubbicco. She studied dance at the [[Boston Conservatory]], and at the [[Martha Graham]], [[Alvin Ailey]], and [[Erick Hawkins]] schools.<ref name="cap30">{{Cite news | title = Jeanne Robinson | work = Capricon 30: Celebration! Program Book | pages = 6 | year = 2010 }}</ref> She performed with the Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in New York City.<ref name="ED">{{cite book |editor1-last=Macpherson |editor1-first=Susan |title=Encyclopedia of Theater Dance in Canada |date=2000 |isbn=092900342X |pages=489=491 |publisher=Dance Collection Danse |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofth0000unse_w6v9/page/490/mode/2up |access-date=8 July 2024}}</ref>


Robinson was briefly married to Daniel Corrigan with whom she joined the [[back-to-the-land movement]] and began to practice Buddhism. She married fellow science-fiction writer [[Spider Robinson]] in 1975 and they had one daughter, Terri Luanna who died in 2014.<ref name="t451">{{cite web | title=Warriors | website=Graceful Woman Warrior | date=2018-11-07 | url=https://gracefulwomanwarrior.com/warriors/ | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref><ref name="y346">{{cite web| title=Terri da Silva Obituary (2014) | website=Legacy.com | date=2014-12-11 | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theday/name/terri-da-silva-obituary?id=16581763 | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref><ref name="WS">{{cite news |last1=Kimber |first1=Stephen |title=A Space Age Marriage |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flc_AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA86 |date=December 20, 1980|access-date=8 July 2024 |work=The Windsor Star}}</ref>
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Robinson married fellow science-fiction writer [[Spider Robinson]] in 1975. She was diagnosed with [[biliary tract cancer]] in February 2009 and began undergoing numerous treatments. She died, age 62, on May 30, 2010.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Kowal | first = Mary Robinette | authorlink = Mary Robinette Kowal | title = RIP: Jeanne Robinson 1948–2010 | publisher = [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] | date = May 31, 2010 | url = http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/rip-jeanne-robinson-1948-2010/ | accessdate = May 31, 2010}}</ref>
She moved to Nova Scotia, serving as the artistic director of the [[Nova Dance Theatre]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], where she choreographed more than thirty original works.<ref name="cap30" /> In 1985 the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s hour-long coverage of the Dance in Canada Gala spent twenty minutes showing the performance of Robinson’s work, FICTION.<ref name="DC">{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Grace | title=Jeanne Robinson, 1948-2010 | website=The Dance Current | date=2010-06-15 | url=https://thedancecurrent.com/news/jeanne-robinson-1948-2010/ | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref>

Her plans to establish the art form of free-fall dance, outlined in the Stardance trilogy, were cut short by the loss of [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|space shuttle Challenger]] and cancellation of the [[Teacher in Space Project]] in 1986, although footage of her dancing on a [[Reduced-gravity aircraft|parabolic flight]] in 2007 survives.<ref name="p610">{{cite web | title=Spider Robinson's star shines in Worldcon's sci-fi universe | website=Bowen Island Undercurrent | date=2018-08-16 | url=https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/local-news/spider-robinsons-star-shines-in-worldcons-sci-fi-universe-3081560 | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref><ref name="MG">{{cite news |last1=Meany |first1=Ken |title=Zero Gravity Dance is a Go |url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217 |access-date=8 July 2024 |work=The Gazette |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307175500/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dabc159d-a2c7-47a5-9aab-cee580604217|archive-date= March 7, 2008|location=Montreal QC|date=27 December 2007}}</ref><ref name="z487">{{cite web | title=Zero-G Test Footage for Stardance Movie | website=YouTube | date=2024-03-06 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7sk9dU5pvM | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref> In 1987 she closed her dance company due to trouble obtaining grants and moved to British Columbia with her family.<ref name="DC" /><ref name="OC">{{cite news |title=Nova Scotia Dance Group to Disbang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tYyAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA54 |access-date=8 July 2024 |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=31 Jan 1987 |page=c14}}</ref>

In 2006 she and her husband were invited by the First Lady to speak at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.<ref name="g153">{{cite web | title= National Book Festival, hosted by First Lady Laura Bush| website=[[Library of Congress]] | url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-book-festival/history/past-festivals/documents/NBF06-Program.pdf | access-date=2024-07-08|date= September 30, 2006}}</ref> In addition to her dance and writing careers, Robinson was an active practitioner of [[Sōtō|Sōtō Zen Buddhism]], a lay-ordained Buddhist monk.<ref name="t930">{{cite web | last=Undercurrent | first=Bowen Island | title=Not done with cancer | website=Bowen Island Undercurrent | date=2012-05-07 | url=https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/in-the-community/not-done-with-cancer-2973916 | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref><ref name="h140">{{cite web | last=Robinson | first=Spider | title=Spider Robinson: Blog | website=Welcome to Spider Robinson's Official Website | date=1984-10-01 | url=http://www.spiderrobinson.com/blog.html | access-date=2024-07-08}}</ref><ref name="DC" /> She spoke of her work as involving "moving koans, visual parables" but did not overtly mention Buddhism in her work until her work Zenki-zu which she created for Vancouver's Women in View festival in 1992.<ref name="ED" /> Along with her husband, she was awarded the [[Inkpot Award]] in 2001.<ref>[https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot Inkpot Award]</ref>

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She was diagnosed with [[biliary tract cancer]] in February 2009 and began undergoing numerous treatments. She died, age 62, on May 30, 2010 and is buried in Saint Peters Cemetery in Provincetown, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Kowal | first = Mary Robinette | author-link = Mary Robinette Kowal | title = RIP: Jeanne Robinson 1948–2010 | publisher = [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]] | date = May 31, 2010 | url = http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/rip-jeanne-robinson-1948-2010/ | access-date = May 31, 2010}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
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==References==
== References ==
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==External links==
== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://spiderrobinson.com/jeanne.html}}
* {{Official website|http://spiderrobinson.com/jeanne.html}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160113070043/http://www.stardancemovie.com/ Stardance official movie website (archived 13 January 2016)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160113070043/http://www.stardancemovie.com/ Stardance official movie website (archived 13 January 2016)]
* [http://stardancemovie.blogspot.com/ Stardance movie blog]
* [http://stardancemovie.blogspot.com/ Stardance movie blog]
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* [http://www.spiderrobinson.com/team.html Team Robinson]
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Latest revision as of 20:19, 2 November 2024

Jeanne Robinson
Robinson at the 2004 Necronomicon
Born(1948-03-30)March 30, 1948
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 30, 2010(2010-05-30) (aged 62)
Bowen Island, British Columbia
Alma materBoston Conservatory
Occupation(s)Choreographer, writer
Spouse
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(m. 1975)​
Children1
Websitespiderrobinson.com/jeanne.html

Jeanne M. Rubbicco Robinson (March 30, 1948 – May 30, 2010) was an American-born Canadian choreographer who co-wrote three science fiction novels, The Stardance Saga, with her husband Spider Robinson.[1][2] Stardance won the Hugo Award and Nebula award for Best Novella in 1978 and 1977 respectively.[3][4]

Biography

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Jeanne Robinson was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Dorothy and Peter Rubbicco. She studied dance at the Boston Conservatory, and at the Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, and Erick Hawkins schools.[5] She performed with the Beverly Brown Dance Ensemble in New York City.[6]

Robinson was briefly married to Daniel Corrigan with whom she joined the back-to-the-land movement and began to practice Buddhism. She married fellow science-fiction writer Spider Robinson in 1975 and they had one daughter, Terri Luanna who died in 2014.[7][8][9] She moved to Nova Scotia, serving as the artistic director of the Nova Dance Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she choreographed more than thirty original works.[5] In 1985 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's hour-long coverage of the Dance in Canada Gala spent twenty minutes showing the performance of Robinson’s work, FICTION.[10]

Her plans to establish the art form of free-fall dance, outlined in the Stardance trilogy, were cut short by the loss of space shuttle Challenger and cancellation of the Teacher in Space Project in 1986, although footage of her dancing on a parabolic flight in 2007 survives.[11][12][13] In 1987 she closed her dance company due to trouble obtaining grants and moved to British Columbia with her family.[10][14]

In 2006 she and her husband were invited by the First Lady to speak at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.[15] In addition to her dance and writing careers, Robinson was an active practitioner of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, a lay-ordained Buddhist monk.[16][17][10] She spoke of her work as involving "moving koans, visual parables" but did not overtly mention Buddhism in her work until her work Zenki-zu which she created for Vancouver's Women in View festival in 1992.[6] Along with her husband, she was awarded the Inkpot Award in 2001.[18]

She was diagnosed with biliary tract cancer in February 2009 and began undergoing numerous treatments. She died, age 62, on May 30, 2010 and is buried in Saint Peters Cemetery in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Zero-gravity dance is a go; Dancer-choreographer Jeanne Robinson will realize a decades-old dream by staging a zero-G dance with the stars on Sunday". The Gazette. Montreal. December 27, 2007. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.
  2. ^ Bear, Greg (May 7, 1978). "Nebula Awards give solid gains to science-fiction authors". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  3. ^ "1978 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. July 26, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  4. ^ McIntyre, Vonda N. (April 18, 2016). "Stardance". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Jeanne Robinson". Capricon 30: Celebration! Program Book. 2010. p. 6.
  6. ^ a b Macpherson, Susan, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Theater Dance in Canada. Dance Collection Danse. pp. 489=491. ISBN 092900342X. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  7. ^ "Warriors". Graceful Woman Warrior. November 7, 2018. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  8. ^ "Terri da Silva Obituary (2014)". Legacy.com. December 11, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  9. ^ Kimber, Stephen (December 20, 1980). "A Space Age Marriage". The Windsor Star. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  10. ^ a b c Smith, Grace (June 15, 2010). "Jeanne Robinson, 1948-2010". The Dance Current. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  11. ^ "Spider Robinson's star shines in Worldcon's sci-fi universe". Bowen Island Undercurrent. August 16, 2018. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  12. ^ Meany, Ken (December 27, 2007). "Zero Gravity Dance is a Go". The Gazette. Montreal QC. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  13. ^ "Zero-G Test Footage for Stardance Movie". YouTube. March 6, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  14. ^ "Nova Scotia Dance Group to Disbang". Ottawa Citizen. January 31, 1987. p. c14. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  15. ^ "National Book Festival, hosted by First Lady Laura Bush" (PDF). Library of Congress. September 30, 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  16. ^ Undercurrent, Bowen Island (May 7, 2012). "Not done with cancer". Bowen Island Undercurrent. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  17. ^ Robinson, Spider (October 1, 1984). "Spider Robinson: Blog". Welcome to Spider Robinson's Official Website. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
  18. ^ Inkpot Award
  19. ^ Kowal, Mary Robinette (May 31, 2010). "RIP: Jeanne Robinson 1948–2010". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
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