Robin Pettersen is a freelance choreographer who also offers workshops in dance composition. She was the Dance Program Coordinator at the Theatre/Dance Department, University of Wisconsin -Whitewater where she taught for 26 years. She also taught at UW-Madison and Alfred University. Pettersen was commissioned to create work for the Thompson/Trammell and Kanopy Dance Companies and Kent State, James Madison, Northern Iowa and St. Cloud State Universities. She was a visiting artist teaching Composition at University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin – Madison and Alma College. Her choreography has also been performed at Beloit College, University of Chicago and Mankato State University. Robin received the honor of having her work adjudicated and chosen for American College Dance Association (ACDA) Gala Concerts in 2009, 2008, 2004 and 2000. She coordinated and participated on choreography feedback panels at ACDA for nearly a decade.
Robin was the Dance Program Director at the Bay View Music Festival summer conservatory in Michigan from 2004 to 2006, where she currently teaches adult ballet. She has created work for the Crooked Tree School of Ballet in Petoskey, MI on five different occasions. A mentor for student choreographers, she presented THE CREATVIE PROCESS: DEVELOPING STUDENT RESEARCH IN DANCE at the National conference on Undergraduate Research, Missoula, MT. Pettersen received the Wisconsin Dance Council Distinction Award in October of 2003. Actively involved in arts funding, she has served on numerous Wisconsin Arts Board grants panels, been a member of the Overture Center Arts Access Fund panel, the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission Arts Grants Panel and was Vice President of the Madison Civic Center Foundation for five years